From Information to Knowledge

From Information to Knowledge presents an insight into the individual struggles being worked on in this fascinating field and offers some general standard definitions of crucial terms, together with some indications of where crossroads and trouble spots may occur.

Contents

• Introduction
  Part 1
• The SACAO Project: Using Computation toward Textual Data Analysis in the Social Sciences - Jules Duchastel, Louis-Claude Paquin, Jacques Beauchemin & Francois Daoust
• An Approach to Expertise Transfer: Computer-Assisted Text Analysis - Louis-Claude Paquin & Luc Dupuy
• Computer Tools for Cognitive Stylistics - Ian Lancashire

  Part 2: Content Analysis

• Terrorist Rhetoric: Texture and Architecture - Robert Hogenraad, Yves Bestgen & Jean-Louis Nysten
• On the Interaction Between Reading and Computing: An Interpretative Approach to Content Analysis - Peter Ph. Mohler
• An Outline of Knowledge Based Text Analysis - Erhard Mergenthaler
• Ideography in Computer-Aided Content Analysis - J. Zvi Namenwirth
• Content-Analytic Culture Indicators: A Self-Critique - Robert Ph. Weber & J. Zvi Namenwirth
• Optimising Choices in a New Content Analysis Program - Alastair McKinnon

  Part 3: From Data to Meaning Archaeology

• Factor Analysis in Classical Archaeology: Export Patterns of Attic Pottery Trade - Roberto Rosati
• SAMOS: Automatic Classification of Ancient Greek Pottery According to the Shape - Cornelius Steckner
  Numismatics
• Ancient Coinage and Modern Technology - Patrizia Serafin Petrillo
  Architecture
• Caryatids and the Measurement of Semiosis in Architecture - Sandor Daranyi, Sandor Marjai, Andor Abranyi & Peter Sutheo
  History/Genealogy
• Intelligent Information Retrieval: An Application in the Field of Historical Biographical Data - Gian Piero Zarri
• Computers and Genealogy: From Family Reconstitution to Population Reconstruction - Gerard Bouchard, Raymond Roy, Bernard Casgrain and Michel Hubert
  Political History
• Instability, Networks and Political Parties: a Political History Expert System Prototype - Marie-Danielle Demelas-Bohy & Monique Renaud
  Literature
• Knowledge Extrusion from Ethnopoetic Texts by Multivariate Statistical Methods - Sandor Daranyi, A. Abranyi & P. Sutheo
• Measures of Narrative Voice in French Prose Fiction Applied to Textual Samples from the Enlightenment to the Twentieth Century - Richard L. Frautschi
  Music
• A Project in Computer Music: The Musician's Workbench - Roger B. Dannenberg, Paul McAvinney, Marilyn Taft Thomas Joshua J. Bloch, Dean Rubine, Marie-Helene Serra

  Part 4: The Struggle for Acceptance

• Kuhnian Discovery Versus Bean-Counting: Divergent Paths Toward Scientific Acceptance - Henry G. Burger