I thought that people had given up asking about such matters. You might try to
find something about George A. Miller. I am not sure he's still alive (he'd be
88), but he was head of the psychology department at Princeton when he and a few
others of us used to meet at M.I.T. back in the 1960s to discuss cognitive
manipulation by computer (at a time when most people weren't sure if it was
spelled "computor" or "Computer"). Oliver Selfridge was in charge of a project
there called Baseball; I cannot recall all the others' names, but I do know that
Victor Yngve was often in attendance. Then, too, there was a lady, Margaret
something, a wonderful professor from Cambridge University, whom I met years
later, when we had a marvelous time resuscitating some of the old thoughts, most
of which, alas, have now fled.
As you might know, my interest in it all lay in the fact that my Random House
Unabridged (1966) was the first dictionary to use computers in its compilation,
styling, editing, etc., and---ultimately---typesetting. The only reasonably
accessible item available on the subject that I can recall is my "The Use of
Typographic Styling in Information Retrieval," WORD, 1966 (no. ?), which had to
be written backwards, so to speak, because nobody would publish it or understand
it in any other form at the time. I can send you an offprint if you send me a
s.a.s.e. (not because of the 41-cent postage but because I haven't your address
and have grown lazy).
Larry Urdang

Ken Litkowski <ken@...> wrote:
I'm putting together a paper for a computational linguistics workshop
on
cognitive aspects of the lexicon (enhancing the structure, indexes and
entry points of electronic dictionaries). A main objective of my paper
will be an attempt to resuscitate the moribund research within the
computational linguistics community on what used to be called
machine-readable dictionaries. I have much to write about, based on my
experience in working with the XML files of Oxford and Macquarie. But,
I'd like to hear from others if they are doing innovative things that
might be of use to a computational community.

Thanks,
Ken
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