Language, Culture, Computation: Computing for the Humanities, Law, and Narratives

1. Front Matter

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2. Humanities Computing

   1. The Responsa Project: Some Promising Future Directions

      • Moshe Koppel

      Pages 1-8

   2. The Historical Significance of the Cambridge Genizah Inventory Project

      • Rebecca J. W. Jefferson

      Pages 9-37

   3. The Princeton University Geniza Project: Using the Internet for Jewish and Islamic Research

      • Mark R. Cohen

      Pages 38-46

   4. Design and Evaluation of a Visitor Guide in an Active Museum

      • Oliviero Stock, Tsvi Kuflik, Massimo Zancanaro, Dina Goren-Bar, Ariel Gorfinkel, Sadek Jbara et al.

      Pages 47-71

   5. Judaica Europeana: Jewish Semantics in the Linked Data Semantic Web

      • Dov Winer

      Pages 72-87

   6. Paradise Lost and Milton’s Associative Memory

      • Ian Lancashire

      Pages 88-102

   7. Special Effects; or, The Tooling Is Here. Where Are the Results?

      • Willard McCarty

      Pages 103-117

3. Narratives and Their Formal Representation

   1. Representation and Management of Complex ‘Narrative’ Information

      • Gian Piero Zarri

      Pages 118-137

   2. Tale Variants and Analysis in Episodic Formulae: Early Ottoman, Elizabethan, and “Solomonic” Versions

      • Ephraim Nissan

      Pages 138-192

   3. On Chance, Causality, Agency, Volition, and Communication: The Case of the Subversive Parrot of Sfakion

      • Ephraim Nissan

      Pages 193-269

   4. Narratives, Formalism, Computational Tools, and Nonlinearity

      • Ephraim Nissan

      Pages 270-393

   5. Review of Ontology Based Storytelling Devices

      • Dov Winer

      Pages 394-405

4. History of Ideas: The Numerate Disciplines

   1. When Being Numerate Used to Mean Something Else

      • Meir Bar-Ilan

      Pages 406-423

5. Law, Computer Law, and Legal Computing

   1. Risks to Consider When Negotiating IT Outsourcing Agreements

      • Subha Chandar, John Zeleznikow

      Pages 424-439

   2. There Is More to Legal Reasoning with Analogies than Case Based Reasoning, But What?

      • Ruth Kannai, Uri J. Schild, John Zeleznikow

      Pages 440-451

   3. A Quarter of Century in Artificial Intelligence and Law: Projects, Personal Trajectories, a Subjective Perspective

      • Ephraim Nissan, Carmelo Asaro, Aldo Franco Dragoni, Dany Yamen Farook, Solomon Eyal Shimony

      Pages 452-695

   4. Simplification and Quality of the Legal System

      • Antonio A. Martino

      Pages 696-720

   5. The Digesto Jurídico Argentino: Considerations Concerning a Large Juridical Project

      • Antonio A. Martino

      Pages 721-750

6. Back Matter

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This Festschrift volume is published in Honor of Yaacov Choueka on the occasion of this 75th birthday. The present three-volumes liber amicorum, several years in gestation, honours this outstanding Israeli computer scientist and is dedicated to him and to his scientific endeavours. Yaacov's research has had a major impact not only within the walls of academia, but also in the daily life of lay users of such technology that originated from his research. An especially amazing aspect of the temporal span of his scholarly work is that half a century after his influential research from the early 1960s, a project in which he is currently involved is proving to be a sensation, as will become apparent from what follows. Yaacov Choueka began his research career in the theory of computer science, dealing with basic questions regarding the relation between mathematical logic and automata theory. From formal languages, Yaacov moved to natural languages. He was a founder of natural-language processing in Israel, developing numerous tools for Hebrew. He is best known for his primary role, together with Aviezri Fraenkel, in the development of the Responsa Project, one of the earliest fulltext retrieval systems in the world. More recently, he has headed the Friedberg Genizah Project, which is bringing the treasures of the Cairo Genizah into the Digital Age.
This second part of the three-volume set covers a range of topics related to the application of information technology in humanities, law, and narratives. The papers are grouped in topical sections on: humanities computing; narratives and their formal representation; history of ideas: the numerate disciplines; law, computer law, and legal computing.

• artificial intelligence
• formal methods
• knowledge engineering
• natural language processing
• ontologies

• School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

  Nachum Dershowitz

• Goldsmiths College, Department of Computing, University of London, London, UK

  Ephraim Nissan

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