lesk@petrus.UUCP (Michael Lesk) (10/16/85)
From: lesk@bellcore (Michael E. Lesk) The University of Waterloo Centre for the New OED is starting research projects using the machine-readable form of the OED now being prepared. The plan is to have not just typesetting tapes, but an electronic database representing the history and use of the English language, as shown in the dictionary. A one-day meeting at Waterloo, from 7pm Thursday Nov. 7 through 4:30pm Friday Nov. 8, 1985, will examine research areas related to the OED and machine-readable dictionaries. The program is: Introduction John Simpson, Oxford University Press, "The New OED Project" John Stubbs, University of Waterloo, "The UW Centre for the New OED" Using On-Line Dictionaries (Michael Lesk, session chair) Henry Kucera, Brown University, "The Problem of Structural Ambiguity in the Lexicon" Donald Walker, Bell Communications Research, "Knowledge Resource Tools for Accessing Large Text Files" George Miller, Princeton University, "Wordnet: A Dictionary Browser" The Use and Misuse of Dictionaries (Neil Hultin, session chair) Gisele Losier, U. Waterloo, "Using the OED for the Study of Loan Words" Christopher Dean, U. Saskatchewan, "The OED: The Study of Local Regional Dialects and Historical Dialet Dictionaries" Knowledge Databases (Robin Cohen, session chair) Randy Goebel, U. Waterloo, "What is a Knowledge Representation System?" John Sowa, IBM, "Using Knowledge Representation to Capture the Semantic Information of a Lexicon" Summary (Frank Tompa, U. Waterloo, plus other session chairs) Those interested in attending should send $25 US or $35 Canadian, along with their name, address and phone numbers, to: Centre for the New OED Dana Porter Library, rm 105 University of Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1