ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) (05/12/86)
Hi - I am working on software which trains students in speed
reading techniques. I need to have a number of stories, arti-
cles, or papers for the student to choose from for the exercises.
If you have any material which you are willing to let me use,
please let me know (or just send the file). It has to be a file
I can easily move onto an IBM PC disk, so printed pages are not
of much use. Any subject or reading level or language is fine.
Languages like LISP or Pascal don't qualify (-:
If you want more information about the software, please send a
message to one of the following addresses:
ARPA: con.reilly@su-gsb-how.ARPA
UUCP: ucbvax!con.reilly@su-gsb-how.ARPA
Thanks much,
Brian Reilly
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--rick heli
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INTERNET: ucdavis!ccrrick@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDUmichaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell) (05/15/86)
In article <324@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) writes: >...I need to have a number of stories, articles, or papers... >If you have any material which you are willing to let me use, >please let me know (or just send the file). It has to be a file >I can easily move onto an IBM PC disk, so printed pages are not >of much use. Any subject or reading level or language is fine. I can think of lots of other uses for such computer-readable text. We just spent a man-day or so typing in the front page of the New York Times, so we could run our parser program on it (as a test case). (We would probably have done better if we got a secretary to do it, but we didn't realize it would be such a big task.) I know of lots of sources of such data that you can spend big bucks on, but there's probably some public domain stuff out there... BTW, we decided against usnet as a source of text because we wanted something at a slightly higher level :-) All seriousness aside, you might consider some of the discussion on net.origins; some of the articles there are certainly long enough... (And yes, I do mean "all seriousness aside".) -- Mike Maxwell Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center ...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm