Computing in the humanities., proceedings of the third international conference on computing in the humanities

A Comparative Study of Metadiscourse Markers in English and Persian University Lectures

The purpose of this study was to compare metadiscourse markers in forty English and Persian university lectures. Twenty of them were selected from the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The other 20 were selected from an Iranian website (www.maktoobkhane.com). We used Hyland’s (2005) model of metadiscourse. The metadiscourses were collected. Further, the frequency of each type was studied....

Collaboration Must Be Fundamental or It's Not Going to Work: an Oral History Conversation between Harold Short and Julianne Nyhan

Harold Short recounts that his interest in Computing and the Humanities goes back to when he was an undergraduate in English and French at a university in the former Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). There, whilst undertaking summer work in the library, he saw first-hand the potential of digital methods. After arriving in London in 1972 he took an Open University degree in mathematics, computing and sys...

Another Suitcase, Another Student Hall - Where Are We Going To? What ACH/ALLC 2001 Can Tell Us About the Current Direction of Humanities Computing

th – June 17 th 2001, showcased the wide spectrum of research being undertaken within the field of " Digital Media and Humanities Research " at present. This was the largest ever ACH/ALLC (the oldest established meeting of scholars working at the intersection of advanced information technologies and the humanities), providing a meeting point for the expanding Humanities Computing community, whi...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Digital Humanities 2006 : When Two

The First International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) was special in many ways, not least because it was the first time that the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) convened their joint conference under this new name. Held at the Université Paris-Sorbonne, Digital Humanities 2...