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badgoodDeb · 03-02-2008, 06:13 PM

The OED people (I guess that would be OUP mentioned above) have been very helpful in the electronic realm. In the early to mid 1990's, they released a tape of their old version (v1, 197x) of the OED to universities for compu-linguistic research purposes. It was a version with printing markups in it. I got 99% of a PhD (no thesis) working with a group who were trying to teach a computer to understand and parse sentences by use of the OED dictionary. [ It's surprising what extra knowledge the human brain adds, from life experience -- that's the part that is hard to teach a computer! ]

03-02-2008, 06:13 PM	#6
badgoodDeb Grand Sorcerer Posts: 8,501 Karma: 64095689 Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Harrisburg outskirts Device: Palms, K1-4s, iPads, iPhones, KV, KO1	The OED people (I guess that would be OUP mentioned above) have been very helpful in the electronic realm. In the early to mid 1990's, they released a tape of their old version (v1, 197x) of the OED to universities for compu-linguistic research purposes. It was a version with printing markups in it. I got 99% of a PhD (no thesis) working with a group who were trying to teach a computer to understand and parse sentences by use of the OED dictionary. [ It's surprising what extra knowledge the human brain adds, from life experience -- that's the part that is hard to teach a computer! ]