[Corpora-List] father Roberto Busa

[Yorick Wilks]

Sad to hear. I remember visiting his monastery around 1974--it was wonderful to meet him.
Yorick Wilks


On 12 Aug 2011, at 02:14, John F. Sowa wrote:

> On 8/11/2011 5:47 PM, Passarotti Marco Carlo wrote:
>> The field of corpus and computational linguistics lost one
>> of his pioneers. We will all miss him so much.
> 
> Yes, I remember hearing him talk about the Index Thomisticus
> at a workshop held in connection with the LSA Summer Institute
> at the University of Illinois in 1969.
> 
> Coincidentally, Joe Raben, who received the Busa prize in 2010,
> was also at that workshop.
> 
> Other notable events that occurred during that institute
> included the landing of the first man on the moon -- but
> that event was held "off site" so to speak.
> 
> John
> 
> _______________________________________________
> UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
> Corpora mailing list
> Corpora at uib.no
> http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora



_______________________________________________
UNSUBSCRIBE from this page: http://mailman.uib.no/options/corpora
Corpora mailing list
Corpora at uib.no
http://mailman.uib.no/listinfo/corpora