Course: English
694 Computer-based Tools for Literary Research Fall 1999.
Web pages for Workshop on The
Use of Computer Corpora in Linguistics, North American Symposium on
Corpora in Linguistics and Language Teaching, University of Michigan, 20
May 1999.
Allen Renear (Brown University)and
Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) face off in What
is Text? A Debate on the
philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities
computing research, organized by Susan Hockey,
Thursday 10 June 1999 at ACHALLC99.
Susan Hockey
is a Professor in the
Faculty of Arts and Director of the Canadian
Institute for Research Computing in Arts (CIRCA) at the University
of Alberta, where she also teaches humanities computing in the Department
of English. Her interests are in the development of better computing tools
and techniques to meet the needs of text-based scholarship in the humanities.
From 1991
to 1997 Susan Hockey was the first Director of the Center
for Electronic Texts in the Humanities (CETH), sponsored by Rutgers
and Princeton Universities and funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to act as a focus for electronic
texts in the humanities within the United States. At CETH she founded and
co-directed (with Dr Willard McCarty) an annual International
Summer Seminar on Methods and Tools for Electronic Texts in the Humanities.
She also directed a programme of research on the use of the Standard Generalized
Markup Language (SGML) for the Humanities including an interface to OpenText's
Pat search engine, a pilot project linking the Text Encoding Initiative
and the Encoded Archival Description SGML Document Type Definitions, and
the Electronic Theophrastus.
At Oxford
University Computing Services from 1975 to 1991, Susan Hockey undertook
various projects and roles. She was Project Director for the Oxford
Concordance Program (OCP) for which she also wrote the user manual,
and Project Director for the first version of the manuscript collation
program Collate.
She taught courses on Text Analysis and the Computer, and SNOBOL Programming
for the Humanities. She was also the First Director of the Computers
in Teaching Initiative Centre for Textual Studies and also directed
the Office for Humanities
Communication from 1989-91. She was elected to a Fellowship by Special
Election of St Cross College in
1979 and an Emeritus Fellowship of the College in 1991.
Susan Hockey
was Chair of the Association for Literary
and Linguistic Computing from 1984-97. During that time she founded
the journal Literary and
Linguistic Computing with Oxford University Press and also co-edited
five volumes of the series Research in Humanities Computing for Oxford.
She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Text
Encoding Initiative since 1987 and has twice served as chair of that
committee.
Her current
research activities include serving as Co-Chair (with Bernard Taylor) of
the Society of Biblical Literature
Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Texts, as co-coordinator
(with David Chesnutt and C. Michael Sperberg-McQueen) and Chair of the
Steering Committee of the Model Editions
Partnership, and as co-investigator responsible for the technical direction
of the Orlando Project.
Susan Hockey
is the author of A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities,
Duckworth and Johns Hopkins, 1980 and Snobol Programming for the Humanities,
Oxford University Press, 1986, as well as numerous articles on text encoding,
text analysis, and computing in the humanities.
Since 1985
Susan Hockey has served on various Expert Groups, Advisory Boards and Task
Forces including:
Her other
interests include travel and hiking - she and her husband Martin
have trekked in Nepal and hiked the Grand Canyon from rim to rim - also
dressmaking, knitting and needlecraft.
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on 22 September 1999
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