Steven DeRose

{{short description|American computer scientist}}

{{BLP sources|date=March 2010}}

Steven J DeRose (born 1960) is a computer scientist noted for his contributions to computational linguistics and to key standards related to document processing, mostly around ISO's Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and W3C's Extensible Markup Language (XML).

His contributions include the following:

• HyTime
• Text Encoding Initiative
• XPath –- editor
• XPointer –- editor
• XLink –- editor{{Cite web

| title = XML Linking Language (XLink) Version 1.0

| url = http://www.w3.org/TR/xlink/

| publisher = W3C

| date = 27 June 2001

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• OSIS—chairman
• XML

He served as Chief Scientist of the Scholarly Technology Group, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science, at Brown University.{{Cite web

|title = Scholarly Technology Group, Staff Alumni pages

|url = http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/sjd.html

|url-status = dead

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131002100123/http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/sjd.html

|archive-date = 2013-10-02

}} While there he received NSF and NEHNEH Grant number: PA-23769-01, 5/1/2001 – 4/30/2004. {{Cite web|title=Converting Text Encoding Initiative Guidelines and Documentation into the XML Format [TEI]|url=https://securegrants.neh.gov/publicquery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=PA-23769-01|access-date=2023-02-18|website=securegrants.neh.gov}}John Unsworth. "NEH grant". Posting to tei-council list.

Sun Jan 6 13:16:27 EST 2002 [http://lists.village.virginia.edu/pipermail/tei-council/2002/000008.html] grants and contributed heavily to the Open eBook and Encoded Archival Description standards. Previously, he was co-founder and Chief Scientist at Electronic Book Technologies, Inc., where he designed the first SGML browser (Dynatext), which earned 11 US Patents and won Seybold{{Cite journal|author=Seybold Publications|title=Seybold Seminars Boston '96 [February 27 - March 1, 1996. Boston, MA]. Part I. Seybold Seminars Boston '96: When Worlds Collide.|url=http://xml.coverpages.org/bib-sz.html#seyboldSR48|access-date=2023-02-18|website=xml.coverpages.org|publisher=Seybold Special Report |volume=4 |issue=8 |date=March 25, 1996 |issn=1069-7217}} and other awards.

His 1987 article with James Coombs and Allen Renear, "Markup Systems and the Future of Scholarly Text Processing", is a seminal source for the theory of markup systems, and has been widely cited and reprinted.

{{Cite web

| title = SGML Bibliography 1994

| author = Robin Cover

| url = http://xml.coverpages.org/sgmlbib0.html

| date = 11 July 1997

}}

{{Cite web

| title = On Semantics and Markup

| author = Tim Bray

| url = http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/09/SemanticMarkup

| date = 11 July 1997

| author-link = Tim Bray

}}

{{Cite conference

| title = Panel: What is text? A debate on the philosophical and epistemological nature of text in the light of humanities computing research

| author = Susan Hockey (chair)

| url = http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/hockey-renear2.html

| conference = ACH-ALLC '99 International Humanities Computing Conference

| location = Charlottesville, Virginia

| date = 9–13 June 1999

| conference-url = http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/index.html

}}

{{Cite book

| title = The Text in the Machine: Electronic Texts in the Humanities

| author = Toby Burrows

| url = http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/hockey-renear2.html

| publisher = University of Washington Press

| location = Binghamton NY

| year = 2004

| page = 4

| isbn = 978-0-7890-0424-6

}}

{{Cite book

| title = Voice, Text, Hypertext: Emerging Practices in Textual Studies

|editor1=Raimonda Modiano |editor2=Leroy Searle |editor3=Peter L. Shillingsburg | url = http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/ach-allc.99/proceedings/hockey-renear2.html

| publisher = Haworth Press

| location = Binghamton NY

| year = 1999

| page = 375

| isbn = 978-0-295-98305-9

}}{{Cite web

| title = New Reading on Text

| author = Robin Cover

| url = http://dhhumanist.org/Archives/Virginia/v04/0092.html

| date = 21 May 1990

}}{{cite web |url=http://www.cs.unibo.it:443/pub/TR/UBLCS/2007/2007-05.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-04-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722060159/http://www.cs.unibo.it:443/pub/TR/UBLCS/2007/2007-05.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-22 }}{{citation|author=Angelo Di Iorio|title=Pattern-based Segmentation of Digital Documents: Model and Implementation|volume=Technical Report UBLCS-2007-5|date=March 2007|publisher=Department of Computer Science|location=University of Bologna, Mura Anteo Zamboni 7 40127 Bologna (Italy)}} The article "What is Text, Really?"{{citation|author1=Steven J. DeRose |author2=David G. Durand |author3=Elli Mylonas |author4=Allen H. Renear |name-list-style=amp |year=1997|title=What is text, really?|journal=Journal of Computing in Higher Education|volume=1|issue=2|pages=3–26}}. has also been widely cited and reprinted,{{citation|author1=Steven J. DeRose |author2=David G. Durand |author3=Elli Mylonas |author4=Allen H. Renear |name-list-style=amp |title=What is text, really?|journal=SIGDOC, J. Comput. Doc.|volume=21|issue=3|date=August 1997|pages=1–24|doi=10.1145/264842.264843|s2cid=12419068 }} (a special issue with multiple articles in response [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=264842&picked=prox&cfid=171815279&cftoken=27140062]). and led to several follow-on articles{{citation|title=Refining our Notion of What Text Really Is: The Problem of Overlapping Hierarchies|author=Renear, Allen, Durand, David, Mylonas, Elli|editor=Hockey, Susan, Ide, Nancy|year=1996|journal=Research in Humanities Computing 4: Selected Papers from the 1992 ALLC/ACH Conference|place=Oxford|publisher= Oxford University Press|pages= 263–280|url=http://www.stg.brown.edu/resources/stg/monographs/ohco.html}} In addition, he has published 2 books (Making Hypermedia Work: A User's Guide to HyTime and The SGML FAQ Book); as well as articles in a variety of journals, magazines, and proceedings.

He has given papers and tutorials at the ACM Hypertext Conference and various SGML and XML conferences,[http://www.stg.brown.edu/pub/1999.html Brown University Library. "STG Publications - 1999"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619082632/http://www.stg.brown.edu/pub/1999.html |date=2013-06-19 }} a keynote address at the ACM Conference on Very Large DataBases (VLDB),[http://www.vldb.org/archives/website/1999/cfa/InvitedTalks.html 1999 Invited talks] at VLDB. {{cite book|title=Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases|year=1999|publisher=Morgan Kaufmann|location=San Francisco, CA|editor1=Malcolm P. Atkinson |editor2=Maria E. Orlowska |editor2-link=Maria Orłowska |editor3=Patrick Valduriez |editor4=Stanley B. Zdonik |editor5=Michael L. Brodie. }} and a plenary talk at the Text Encoding Initiative 10 Conference.[http://www.stg.brown.edu/conferences/tei10/ The Relation Between TEI and XML], later published as {{cite news|author=DeRose, Steven J.|title=XML and the TEI|journal=Computers and the Humanities|volume=33|issue=1–2|year=1999|pages=11–30}}

In Computational Linguistics, he is knownSteven Abney. 1997. "Part-of-speech tagging and partial parsing." In

Corpus-Based Methods in Language and Speech. {{cite web |url=http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/papers/Abney96a.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-12-15 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031209092806/http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/jimmylin/papers/Abney96a.pdf |archive-date=2003-12-09 }}.

Susan Schreibman, Raymond George Siemens, and John M. Unsworth (eds). 2005. A companion to digital humanities. (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture). {{ISBN|978-1-4051-0321-3}}. [https://books.google.com/books?id=MGo1GquyFYwC&pg=PA293] for pioneering the use of dynamic programming methods for part-of-speech tagging (DeRose 1988, 1990).