rapaport@cs.buffalo.EDU (William J. Rapaport) (10/14/87)
UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
CO-SPONSORS A COLLOQUIUM BY
MICHAEL SOKOLOFF
Bar Ilan University and Johns Hopkins University
COMPUTERIZED LEXICOGRAPHY:
The Case of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic
This lecture will describe the methodology employed by the speaker in
writing a dictionary of an Aramaic dialect known from literary texts of
the byzantine Era. This is the first successfully completed dictionary
of a Semitic dialect to have been produced with the aid of a computer.
Algorithms used to prepare the KWICs of the linguistic corpus highlight-
ing the problems involved when working with a Semitic language written
in a consonantal script will be discussed. Finally, the problems of
wordprocessing a bidirectional text and its preparation for printing by
a computerized typesetter will be dealt with.
Friday, October 23, 1987
12:00 noon
Clemens 1032, Amherst Campus
Co-sponsored by:
Bureau of Jewish Education of Greater Buffalo,
Department of Classics, Judaic Studies Program, Religious Studies Program,
Department of Linguistics, and Department of Computer Science
Brown-bag lunches permitted!
For further information, call (716) 636-3193.
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William J. Rapaport
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14260
(716) 636-3193, 3181
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