{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,6,19]],"date-time":"2025-06-19T04:25:22Z","timestamp":1750307122749,"version":"3.41.0"},"publisher-location":"New York, NY, USA","reference-count":19,"publisher":"ACM","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,7]],"date-time":"2011-08-07T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1312675200000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"https:\/\/www.acm.org\/publications\/policies\/copyright_policy#Background"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["dl.acm.org"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":[],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,7]]},"DOI":"10.1145\/2019342.2019346","type":"proceedings-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,16]],"date-time":"2011-08-16T19:12:06Z","timestamp":1313521926000},"page":"317-324","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1145\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["<i>The Readers Project<\/i>"],"prefix":"10.1145","author":[{"given":"Daniel C.","family":"Howe","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"City University, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"John","family":"Cayley","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"320","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2011,8,7]]},"reference":[{"volume-title":"N. Katherine Hayles","year":"2008","key":"e_1_3_2_2_1_1"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1038\/scientificamerican1070-120"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_3_1","unstructured":"In fact this is historically\/culturally determined a function of the fact that the z-dimension happens to have had little or no significance for the graphic representation of language or at best only marginal significance for reasons associated with the media-support for graphic language that have been available to date. This situation could change and arguably is now changing as it becomes ever easier to make the z-dimension perceptible within devices that represent graphic language. Note also that in sign language the z-dimension is significant \"phonologically\" in the technical linguistic sense and in other grammatical ways as well.  In fact this is historically\/culturally determined a function of the fact that the z-dimension happens to have had little or no significance for the graphic representation of language or at best only marginal significance for reasons associated with the media-support for graphic language that have been available to date. This situation could change and arguably is now changing as it becomes ever easier to make the z-dimension perceptible within devices that represent graphic language. Note also that in sign language the z-dimension is significant \"phonologically\" in the technical linguistic sense and in other grammatical ways as well."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_4_1","unstructured":"This phrase is intended to invoke both the natural language processing research that underlies our project and also the concept of \"expressive processing\" as vital aspects of much contemporary aesthetic practice including literary practice as elaborated by Noah Wardrip-Fruin Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions Computer Games and Software Studies (Cambridge: MIT Press 2009).  This phrase is intended to invoke both the natural language processing research that underlies our project and also the concept of \"expressive processing\" as vital aspects of much contemporary aesthetic practice including literary practice as elaborated by Noah Wardrip-Fruin Expressive Processing: Digital Fictions Computer Games and Software Studies (Cambridge: MIT Press 2009)."},{"volume-title":"NJ: IEEE Press","year":"2009","author":"Ashlock D.","key":"e_1_3_2_2_5_1"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_6_1","unstructured":"One might also pre-process texts so as to be able to extract other cellular properties that are not regularly represented in traditional orthography such as phonemes morphemes syllables etc. As will be clear from our description while the identity of cells is based on traditional orthographic and typographic distinctions the strategies and behaviors of particular readers are often based on features extracted by computational analysis of the supply texts. Rhyme which is based on phonemic analysis represents one of many such examples.  One might also pre-process texts so as to be able to extract other cellular properties that are not regularly represented in traditional orthography such as phonemes morphemes syllables etc. As will be clear from our description while the identity of cells is based on traditional orthographic and typographic distinctions the strategies and behaviors of particular readers are often based on features extracted by computational analysis of the supply texts. Rhyme which is based on phonemic analysis represents one of many such examples."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_7_1","unstructured":"Although we would appreciate connecting our aesthetic research more rigorously with for example studies of reading in cognitive science such relations are only loosely suggested here. The authors are nonetheless involved with UK ARHC-funded research network Poetry Beyond Text based at the Universities of Dundee and Kent in which both cognitive scientists concerned with reading and even cognitive aestheticians have a role. See: projects.beyondtext.ac.uk\/poetrybeyondtext\/.  Although we would appreciate connecting our aesthetic research more rigorously with for example studies of reading in cognitive science such relations are only loosely suggested here. The authors are nonetheless involved with UK ARHC-funded research network Poetry Beyond Text based at the Universities of Dundee and Kent in which both cognitive scientists concerned with reading and even cognitive aestheticians have a role. See: projects.beyondtext.ac.uk\/poetrybeyondtext\/."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_8_1","unstructured":"We use \"vector\" in a figurative sense related to its definition as: a quantity (e.g. of directed force or attention) that can be resolved into components. \"Vector\" also provides us with a noun that can refer to what is really in this case a potential direction for the choice of a next word to be read.  We use \"vector\" in a figurative sense related to its definition as: a quantity (e.g. of directed force or attention) that can be resolved into components. \"Vector\" also provides us with a noun that can refer to what is really in this case a potential direction for the choice of a next word to be read."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_9_1","unstructured":"The term \"poetics\" is used here to encompass any property or method of language that may be composed for rhetorical or aesthetic effect.  The term \"poetics\" is used here to encompass any property or method of language that may be composed for rhetorical or aesthetic effect."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_10_1","unstructured":"We are aware that there is much sophisticated discussion of the interrelation between typography and semantics typography and literary aesthetics and so on. Johanna Drucker's work is exemplary in this regard. Nonetheless we believe that the distinction proposed here is both novel and critically generative. J. Drucker The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art 1909--1923 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994).  We are aware that there is much sophisticated discussion of the interrelation between typography and semantics typography and literary aesthetics and so on. Johanna Drucker's work is exemplary in this regard. Nonetheless we believe that the distinction proposed here is both novel and critically generative. J. Drucker The Visible Word: Experimental Typography and Modern Art 1909--1923 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1994)."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_11_1","unstructured":"For precise details of the current definition please see: thereadersproject.org?p=contents\/neighborhood.html. In our scheme -- as a refection of traditional left-to-right reading in the West -- the NE and SE neighbors will not be null where there are lines of type above or below the current word. The NW N SW and S positions may however be null depending on relative word-lengths.  For precise details of the current definition please see: thereadersproject.org?p=contents\/neighborhood.html. In our scheme -- as a refection of traditional left-to-right reading in the West -- the NE and SE neighbors will not be null where there are lines of type above or below the current word. The NW N SW and S positions may however be null depending on relative word-lengths."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_12_1","first-page":"17","volume":"14","author":"Moore E. F.","year":"1962","journal-title":"The American Mathematical Society"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"A. A. Markov \"Classical Text in Translation: An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin Concerning the Connection of Samples in Chains \" trans. David Link Science in Context 19.4 591--600 (2006). Online: journals.cambridge.org\/production\/action\/cjoGetFulltext?fullt extid=637500.  A. A. Markov \"Classical Text in Translation: An Example of Statistical Investigation of the Text Eugene Onegin Concerning the Connection of Samples in Chains \" trans. David Link Science in Context 19.4 591--600 (2006). Online: journals.cambridge.org\/production\/action\/cjoGetFulltext?fullt extid=637500.","DOI":"10.1017\/S0269889706001074"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_14_1","unstructured":"See  thereadersproject.org\/?p=contents\/readers.html. We might also count as implemented a subtle variation of a simple reader the \"writing to be found\" reader that was deployed in the Read for us installation described here: thereadersproject.org\/?p=installations\/readforus\/readforus.html.  See thereadersproject.org\/?p=contents\/readers.html. We might also count as implemented a subtle variation of a simple reader the \"writing to be found\" reader that was deployed in the Read for us installation described here: thereadersproject.org\/?p=installations\/readforus\/readforus.html."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_15_1","unstructured":"Note that the preprocessed identification of perigrams for a text is carried out chiefly for reasons of efficiency. Often depending on network constraints the frequencies of particular phrases are cached in advance rather than being searched in real-time. The extraction of perigrams means that considerably fewer word combinations need be considered and processed.  Note that the preprocessed identification of perigrams for a text is carried out chiefly for reasons of efficiency. Often depending on network constraints the frequencies of particular phrases are cached in advance rather than being searched in real-time. The extraction of perigrams means that considerably fewer word combinations need be considered and processed."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1145\/1640233.1640265"},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_17_1","unstructured":"We are also able to constrain our searches to for example the indices of Google \"books \" thus disregarding much of the commercially or technically implicated Internet text.  We are also able to constrain our searches to for example the indices of Google \"books \" thus disregarding much of the commercially or technically implicated Internet text."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_18_1","unstructured":"We believe that the existence of \"services\" (or pretended cultural vectors) such as those provided by Google combined with a burgeoning aesthetically motivated \"use\" of these services has profound implications for contemporary artistic practice. Such use also allows artists to engage critically and productively with important socio-economic and political developments in an unprecedented manner. We are unable to address these crucial issues within the scope of this paper but plan to do so in future contributions.  We believe that the existence of \"services\" (or pretended cultural vectors) such as those provided by Google combined with a burgeoning aesthetically motivated \"use\" of these services has profound implications for contemporary artistic practice. Such use also allows artists to engage critically and productively with important socio-economic and political developments in an unprecedented manner. We are unable to address these crucial issues within the scope of this paper but plan to do so in future contributions."},{"key":"e_1_3_2_2_19_1","unstructured":"For us one of the attractions of this approach and these procedures is that they may visualize and perform the workings of protosemantic and sublexical linguistic properties -- both traditional poetic properties like rhyme and less-frequently acknowledged properties such as mesostic relations -- highlighting their contribution to literary aesthetics. The role of the protosemantic in The Readers Project must wait for fuller treatment in the future. See: S. McCaffery Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics (Evanston IL: Northwestern University Press 2001).  For us one of the attractions of this approach and these procedures is that they may visualize and perform the workings of protosemantic and sublexical linguistic properties -- both traditional poetic properties like rhyme and less-frequently acknowledged properties such as mesostic relations -- highlighting their contribution to literary aesthetics. The role of the protosemantic in The Readers Project must wait for fuller treatment in the future. See: S. 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