◇ Publications: Books, Papers, Talks, Proposals, Reports, Essays

◇ Vita (PDF)

◆ Books: CCC, ECC, EHC, TUS, WCS

◊ The Eastern Hàn Chinese Grammaticon

《說文解字 ‧ 電子版》
Shuō Wén Jiě Zì — Diànzǐ Bǎn:
Digital Recension of the Eastern Hàn Chinese Grammaticon.

• Now available in a new electronic edition!
  • part of the 文林 Wénlín 4.0 software package (Feb. 2011)
  • updated in Wénlín 4.1 (Nov. 2012)
• 《說文解字 ‧ 注》翻譯工程
  Eastern Hàn Chinese Dictionary Translation Project
  Recipient of a Scholarly Editions and Translations award, from NEH (2010-2013)
• STEDT Monograph #9 (ISBN 0-944613-48-9; December 2009)
  This new high-resolution edition in four volumes (2,400 pages), includes a newly available fourth volume
  of the complete reconstructed Shuō Wén Urtext typeset in Seal Script (vertical text, right-to-left).
• Find this book in a library near you (OCLC 56506765)
• Doctoral Dissertation, UC Berkeley, Department of Linguistics (2003)
• Abstract; (PDF; May, 2003)
• UMI # 3105189 (SHTML)
  The UMI version is low-res, small-print, cheap paper, missing Volume 4;
  Get STEDT Monograph #9 instead!

◊ Classical Chinese Combinatorics

《周易》卦序詮解
Zhōu Yì guàxù quánjiě
Classical Chinese Combinatorics:
Derivation of the Book of Changes Hexagram Sequence.

• STEDT Monograph #5, November 2006 (HTML)
• Find this book in a library near you (OCLC 77009740)
• Get a copy from the STEDT Web Store (ISBN 0-944613-44-6)
• Read the preview pages online (HTML)
• Read the IEAS announcement of the STEDT Colloquium, Nov. 30, 2006, UC Berkeley (HTML)
• Abstracts of talks at Academia Sinica, and National Taiwan University, June 2006 (HTML)
• 中文摘要 (繁體, 简体), 兩個演講在中央研究院歷史語言研究所, 國立臺灣大學中國文學系, 二〇〇六, 六月

◊ World Color Survey

《世界顏色觀察》
The World Color Survey.
Kay, Berlin, Maffi, Merrifield, Cook

• Stanford: CSLI, July 2009 (ISBN (Cloth): 9781575864150)
  The World Color Survey is also the name of our research project at ICSI.

◊ The Unicode Standard, Version 5.0

《統一碼標準, 第五丶〇版》
Tǒngyīmǎ Biāozhǔn, dì wǔ diǎn líng bǎn
(Allen, Becker, Cook, Davis, Everson, Freytag,
Jenkins, Ksar, McGowan, Moore, Muller, Scherer,
Suignard, and Whistler, eds.)

• Unicode 6.2 Electronic Edition now available online!
• Unicode 5.0 Electronic Edition now available online!
• Find this book in a library near you (OCLC 70673215)
• Unicode 5.0, November 2006 (HTML)

◊ The Etymology of Chinese 辰 Chén

《辰字的原始義》
‘Chén’ zì de Yuánshǐ Yì

• UC Berkeley Linguistics: LTBA Monograph Volume 18.2. Fall 1995 [Spring 1997] (HTML)
• Now available in a new full-size edition [Fall, 2009] (STEDT Web Store)

◆ Articles, Papers, Talks, etc.

Character Description Language (CDL)

• “A character description language for CJK.” [with Tom Bishop] Multilingual, #91, Volume 18 Issue 7 (p. 62-8); October/November 2007 (PDF; May 2007)
• “字形描述语言 (字描语): CDL: An XML application for describing Han (CJKV) characters.” (HTML; 2003)

Script Encoding Initiative (SEI) Research Notes

• “Fraser’s Lisu orthography: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding.” (HTML; September, 2007)
• “曼尼普尔文字: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Meitei (Meithei, Manipuri).” (HTML; October, 2006)
• “西夏文和統一碼: Research notes toward a Unicode encoding of Xīxià (Tangut).” (HTML; July, 2006)
• “納西象形文字: Naxi Pictographic and Syllabographic Scripts.” (HTML; June, 2006)

Early China Workshop Series

Dept. of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (EALC, Feb. 2005, University of Chicago)

• “Unicode Chinese paleography: making the evolutionary leap from bone, bronze, silk, and paper, to electronic bits” (PDF; slides)

Linguistic Society of America (LSA)

79th Annual Meeting, 2005, Oakland, CA

• “Conversion of legacy linguistic transcription data to Unicode 4.0.” (Text Abstract, PDF slides; Jan, 2005)

Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman (HPTB; Matisoff, 2003)

• Programming, typesetting, and indices for this book, by Cook & Mortensen (full text PDF)
• “APPENDIX B: Karlgren’s Transcriptional Conventions” (by Cook & Handel; p. 575-6; PDF)

World Color Survey (WCS)

• “Universal Foci and Varying Boundaries in Linguistic Color Categories.” (Terry Regier, Paul Kay and Richard Cook.) Presented at the 27th Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (2005). Stresa, Italy. (PDF)
• “Focal colors are universal after all.” (Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard Cook.) In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS 2005 102: 8386-8391).
• “The World Color Survey database: History and use.” (Richard Cook, Paul Kay, and Terry Regier.) In Henri Cohen and Claire Lefebvre (Eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science. Elsevier, 2005. (PDF)

Internationalization & Unicode Conferences (IUC)

IUC-33 (San Jose, California, October 2009):

• “Still more Unencoded Scripts of China!”

IUC-32 (San Jose, California, October 2008):

• “Unencoded Scripts of China”

IUC-31 (San Jose, California, October 2007):

• “The Character Description Language (CDL) Digital Humanities Start-up”
• “Unicode on the Front Lines: The Tangut Encoding Project”

IUC-29 (San Francisco, California, March 2006):

• “Panel: Unicode and Academia”

IUC-23 (Prague, Czech Republic, March 2003):

• “UniHan Variation: Issues and Solutions”

IUC-22 (San Jose, Sept. 2002):

• “CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C”

IUC-19 (San Jose, Sept. 2001):

• “Typological Encoding of Chinese: Characters, Not Glyphs”

IUC-18 (Hong Kong, April 2000):

• “The Extreme of Typographic Complexity: Character Set Issues Relating to Computerization of the Eastern Hàn Chinese Lexicon Shuō Wén Jiě Zì.”
  • Full text (PDF, Draft of 20010127).
    • Text Abstract.
    • Abstract, PDF.

International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL)

ICSTLL 43 (Lund University, Sweden, October, 2010)

• “On Releasing the STEDT Database” (Cook & Matisoff)
• “The Eastern Hàn Chinese dictionary translation project” (PDF Abstract)

ICSTLL 37 (Lund University, Sweden, October, 2004)

• “Digital Recension of the Eastern Hàn Chinese Grammaticon” (PDF Abstract)

ICSTLL 35 (Arizona State University, November, 2002)

• “Word Families in Sino-Tibetan” (Text Abstract)

ICSTLL 33 (Bangkok, October, 2000)

• “STEDT Data Resources and Protocols” (PDF of the paper presented with John Lowe)
• “Making Waves in Proto-Sino-Tibetan: Ripples of PST <WAVE>.” (PDF)

Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646 Standards Work, Technical Reports, Encoding Proposals (selected)

• Recommendation For IRG To Use IVD Collections [with Ken Lunde; IRG #30, Pusan, June 2008] (PDF).
• Tangut (西夏文) UCS Encoding Project Documents (HTML).
• A User’s Guide to the Unihan Database [with John Jenkins] (HTML).
• The Unihan Database [with John Jenkins] (HTML).
• “Proposed additions to the CJK Strokes block of the UCS” [with Bishop, Anan, and the whole IRG] (PDF).
• “Revised proposal to encode Egyptian hieroglyphs in Plane 1 of the UCS” [with Everson, McGowan, Richmond; groundwork for N3237] (PDF).
• “A Specification of CDL (CJKV Character Description Language)” [with Tom Bishop] (CDL).
• “Proposal to add Ideographic Description Characters (IDC) to the UCS” [Draft proposal.] (PDF).
• “Proposal to add monogram, digram and tetragram characters to the UCS” (L2/02-089= WG2/N2416;《太玄經》卦) [with Everson and Nylan]. (PDF).
• “Proposal to add monogram, digram and hexagram characters to the UCS” (L2/01-283= WG2/N2363; 《周易》卦) [with Everson and Jenkins]. (PDF).
• “Proposal to add five phonetic characters to the UCS” [with Everson]. (PDF).
• “On the status of the curly-tail alveolo-palatal symbols.” (PDF).
  • curly-tail-table3.pdf
  • TranscriptionTable-WUZongji.jpg

STEDT Project Applications & Reports to Funding Agencies (1999-)

I’ve been writing NEH and NSF funding applications and reports with STEDT Project PI Prof. James A. Matisoff since 1998.
These documents are available upon request.

US Peace Corps Marshall Islands (RMI-7)

• Peace Corps Marshallese Language Training Manual (PDF, Draft of July, 1992, revised 12/1992).

◆ Essays

• “A tetralog in three parts” (HTML, 2001/03/23).
• “Unicode : What is it good for?” (HTML, 2001/03/09).
• “Evidence for evolution in the Book of Genesis, or How the snake lost its legs” (HTML, 2000/03/03).

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