CAN WORDCRUNCHERS ENABLE THE USER TO ASK SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS ABOUT LITERARY TEXTS?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS V
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XIII
4. INTRODUCTION XV
5. THE ELECTRONIC LIBRARY AND THE SCHOLARSHIP OF THE FUTURE 1
6. Archaeology
7. DATA VISUALISATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY 7
8. AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH SUPPORT SYSTEM WITH DATABASES OF JAPANESE ANCIENT TOMBS AND GEOGRAPHICS 13
9. ON THE COMPUTER-AIDED CLASSIFICATION OF POTTERY SHAPES 21
10. DOCUMENTATION, AUTOMATIC MEASURING, OBJECT RETRIEVAL AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ECONOMIC AND FUNCTIONAL RESEARCH IN ANCIENT COMMERCIAL POTTERY BY STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF MATHEMATICAL OBJECT STRUCTURE (S Α Μ О S) 28
11. THE A R B O R INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY OF ART (OR TREE STRUCTURES AS DOCUMENTS) 36
12. A DATA BASE ON POMPEII PAINTINGS AND FLOORS 42
13. History of Art – Museum Systems
14. MUSEUM DATABASES CONSTRUCTED USING STIPPLE 48
15. A COLOR IMAGE DATABASE FOR AN ETHNOLOGY MUSEUM 53
16. FINDING THE SIGNS: PICTURES OF MEDIEVAL LIFE 61
17. THE USE OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN IN ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY 68
18. COMPUTER AND MUSICOLOGY AUTOMATIC TRANSCRIPTION OF 16TH CENTURY MUSIC: GERMAN LUTE TABLATURES 75
19. History
20. A DATABASE OF JUSTINIANEAN SOURCES 84
21. THE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN DATA BANK IN EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA 92
22. HOMO EX MACHINA PROSOPOGRAPHY AND CHARTULARIES 97
23. A DATA BASE FOR RESEARCH ON PERSONS AND GROUPS OF PERSONS IN THE MIDDLE AGES 103
24. PATTERNS OF SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTION: SHORT TERM CYCLES AND SECULAR WAVES 109
25. THE DATABASE SAINT-LEGER: COMPUTER AND HISTORY 118
26. ESTABLISHING A RECONSTRUCTIVE METASOURCE ON CENSORSHIP OF NOVELS IN THE EARLY FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT 130
27. AN ANALYSIS OF THE COMPONENTS OF ELITE MIGRATION: VIANO DO CASTELO, MINHO, 1826–1931 136
28. THE FRENCH CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM BETWEEN 1831 AND 1981: A STATISTICAL DATA BASE 141
29. DATABASE APPLICATIONS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY: GERMAN TRANSPORT STATISTICS, 1835–1985 148
30. SYMBOLIC DIMENSIONS OF SERIAL SOURCES HERMENEUTICAL PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTING POLITICAL BIOGRAPHIES BASED ON COMPUTERIZED RECORD LINKAGE 156
31. THE GERMAN PARLIAMENTARIAN DATA BASE: CATCHING THE COMPLEXITIES OF POLITICAL LIFE-HISTORIES 163
32. THE MANY FACES OF A NATION IN ARMS: A DATA BASE ON BRITISH SOLDIERS OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR 172
33. Data Service
34. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A UK HISTORICAL DATA ARCHIVE: PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES 178
35. DATA BASES IN SOCIAL SCIENCES INTEGRATION, NEEDS OF TODAY AND RESULTING CONCEPTS FOR THE FUTURE 181
36. WORLD CULTURES: AN ELECTRONIC JOURNAL AND COMPARATIVE DATABASE 184
37. THE DATA BASE OF THE GERMAN “GENERAL SOCIAL SURVEY” (ALLBUS) 189
38. FRAVIS – A PC BASED SYSTEM FOR DOCUMENTATION AND RETRIEVAL OF SURVEY QUESTIONS 198
39. EMPIRICAL RESEARCH ON THE PC: THE CASE OF OPEN ACCESS II 208
40. Data Representation – Data Analysis
41. PROFESSIONALIZATION IN A PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM LENGTH OF MEMBERSHIP IN THE GERMAN REICHSTAG 214
42. APPLICATIONS OF CORRESPONDENCE ANALYSIS IN SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH 222
43. COMPUTER-ASSISTED TELEPHONE INTERVIEWING (CATI) IN SOCIAL RESEARCH 230
44. FULL-QUASI-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION OF STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS WITH INCOMPLETE DATA 233
45. ANALYSIS OF NON-METRIC DEPENDENT VARIABLES 241
46. P A R A T. A PROGRAM FOR THE ESTIMATION OF PARAMETRIC TRANSITION RATE MODELS 247
47. REALIZATION OF MISSING DATA TECHNIQUES WITHIN STATISTICAL PROGRAM PACKAGES AND THEIR EMPIRICAL PERFORMANCE 256
48. BASIC CONCEPTS AND NEW METHODS OF TIΜΕ SERIES ANALYSIS IN HISTORICAL SOCIAL RESEARCH 263
49. SCALE-ANALYSIS ACCORDING TO R. J. MOKKEN – A PROBABILISTIC EXTENSION OF GUTTMAN SCALING 269
50. INTERACTING WITH DIAGRAMS: USING A GRAPH BROWSER WITH A RESEARCH DATABASE 280
51. CARTO-NET: INTERNATIONAL ACCESS TO MAP AND ARCHIVE RECORDS 286
52. Expert Systems – Information Systems
53. CONSIDERATIONS ON THE USE OF AN EXPERT SYSTEM TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PLANNING 292
54. LEGAL DATA BASES AND EXPERT SYSTEMS IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY THE POSSIBLE INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 302
55. A SHELL – BASED LEGAL EXPERT SYSTEM PROTOTYPE FOR LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING 313
56. EXPERT SYSTEMS AS AN AID TO LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING 321
57. NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN THE LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTATION 329
58. THE APPLICATION OF TERMINOLOGY-BASED KNOWLEDGE DATA BASES IN THE HUMANITIES AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ITS IMPACT ON RESEARCH METHODS 337
59. CONSTRUCTION OF AN INDIVIDUALS IDENTIFICATION HELP SYSTEM 343
60. THES GIUR: AN EXPERIMENTAL THESAURUS OF LEGAL TERMS 351
61. Modelling – Simulation
62. STATISTICAL MODELLING 356
63. REAL TIME MODELLING 362
64. COMPUTER SIMULATIONS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES 368
65. Linguistic Analysis – Content Analysis
66. AUTOMATIC LEMMATIZATION OF LATIN TEXTS 373
67. RELATIVE INDEXING OF DOCUMENTS IN MICROCOMPUTER SYSTEMS PRINCIPLES, TESTING AND EVALUATION 379
68. ELECTRONICALLY PROCESSED TEXTS OF EXOTIC LANGUAGES IN FAVOR OF THE INTEGRATION OF DESCRIPTION INTO LINGUISTIC DISCUSSION 385
69. AN EXPERT SYSTEM THAT USES ABSTRACT FEATURES OF A POEM TO IDENTIFY ITS MOST PROBABLE AUTHOR 390
70. COMPUTER-ASSISTED INTERPRETATION OF DETECTIVE STORIES (СID – COMPUTERGESTÜTZTE INTERPRETATION VON DETEKTIVROMANEN) A RESEARCH PROJECT 402
71. A NEW LITERARY CLASSIFICATION METHOD: THE CASE OF JANE AUSTEN 407
72. THE GENERAL INQUIRER III 410
73. CAN WORDCRUNCHERS ENABLE THE USER TO ASK SIGNIFICANT QUESTIONS ABOUT LITERARY TEXTS? 412
74. RELATIONAL DATABASES FOR TEXTUAL DATA? 418
75. A PLEA FOR INCORPORATING A TEXTUAL DATAMODEL IN RELATIONAL DATABASES 423
76. MOLLUSCS – A PACKAGE FOR POETRY 427
77. TUSTEP 432
78. Computer Aided Instruction
79. THE SOCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF COMPUTING IN STUDENT RESIDENCES 438
80. COMPUTER-AIDED INSTRUCTION AND COMMUNICATION-SKILLS 444
81. THE COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTOR 449
82. ACQUISITION AND COMMUNICATION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT A COMPUTER PROGRAM(1) 454
83. ACADEMIC COMPUTING CENTERS IN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES 459
84. COMPUTERS AND THE FREEDOM OF LEARNING: COURSES, SOURCES, NUMBERS AND HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING 468
85. CALL – A REASONABLE PERSPECTIVE? 477
86. THE INTERACTION OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN COMPUTER-BASED HISTORY 484
87. THE DEMANDS OF THE HISTORICAL DISCIPLINES ON MACHINE READABLE SOURCES – AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THEIR STANDARDIZATION 491
88. TOWARDS A STANDARD FOR THE DESCRIPTION OF HISTORICAL DATASETS 496
89. STUDY DESCRIPTION ADJUSTMENTS FOR HISTORICAL RESEARCH 502
90. THE STANDARD STUDY DESCRIPTION AT THE ESRC DATA ARCHIVE 507
91. DEVELOPMENT OF A STANDARD FOR ENCODING LITERARY AND LINGUISTIC MATERIALS 511
92. LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 513
93. INDEX 518
94. Backmatter 521