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TAPoR is the Text Analysis Portal for Research, a collaboration by six Canadian universities to build a centralized gateway to representative texts and sophisticated text analysis tools. The computing infrastructure is available to host and support research projects using text, text encoding, text transformation, and XML technologies. For more information on the TAPoR in Canada initiative, please consult our TAPoR Canada page.
TAPoR @ UAlberta is a hub for text-based computing research in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta. Associated projects use TAPoR's significant computing resources, including a high performance server and a computer workshop. (See a diagram of our servers). The TAPoR workshop, located in Arts 434, houses eight high-end networked computers, a comprehensive selection of software, and relevant equipment. Our staff includes a Systems Administrator and Applications Developer, a Database Analyst, and talented Research Assistants.
The Research Director for TAPoR @ UAlberta is John Newman.
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Newsletter 3.1 - September 2008
The Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts and TAPoR are sponsoring a Humanities Computing Research Colloquium at the University of Alberta. Here is the Fall schedule. Locations, Titles and Abstracts will follow. Colloquium Series for 2009 - 2010
Teresa Dobson, University of British Columbia
Title: The Role of Multimedia Literature in Critical Literary Education
Abstract: It is arguable that some of the most innovative text
experiments online-ones that truly push the boundaries of established
conventions of writing, and that work to explore the particular
affordances of digital media-have occurred in creative contexts where
the literary and design communities converge with a view to generating
alternate, innovative, multimedia forms. One such form is electronic
literature, which is defined by the Electronic Literature Organization
as a class of "works with important literary aspects that take advantage
of the capabilities and contexts provided by the stand-alone or
networked computer" (ELO, 2006, n.p.). E-literature includes genres such
as hypertext fiction, reactive poetry, blog novels, Flash fiction and
poetry, generative art, installation, code poetry, and so on. This
presentation considers the features of multimedia literary forms through
an examination of two examples and contemplates the value of these
innovative texts for critical literary education.
Mark Davies, Professor of (Corpus) Linguistics, Brigham Young University
Title: Using robust corpora to examine genre-based variation and recent
historical shifts in English
Abstract: We'll use data from a number of different corpora that we've
created to look at change and variation in English. The corpora include
the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA: 400+ million words,
1990-2009+), the TIME Corpus of Historical American English (100 million
words, 1920s-2000s), the BYU-OED Corpus (37 million words; Old English -
Present Day English) and the BYU-BNC Corpus (UK, 1980s-1993). We'll look
at the range of queries afforded by these corpora (lexical, semantic,
morphological, and semantic), as well as how they are made possible by
the corpus architecture. We'll also briefly consider some design issues,
such as genre representation and copyright issues.
Sandra Gabriele
Title: Visual Differentiation in Look-alike Medication Names: Evaluating design in context
Abstract: The aim of this study is to evaluate ways that visual
communication design, and more specifically, typography, can be used to
help combat the problem of medication errors that occur during the
medication process due to the confusion between pairs of look-alike
(orthographically similar) medication names. Methods and results from a
smaller study were revisited to inform the design of this larger study.
Nursing and pharmacy participants will help determine the
effectiveness of changing the visual appearance of part of a look-alike
name to help distinguish it from its look-alike counterpart. Names will
be evaluated with in contexts that simulate situations found in a
hospital setting - shelf labeling, electronic patient charts and
medication labeling - thus making the results useful to current
practices in healthcare.
Information about previous speakers and materials from their presentations may be found in the archive.
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