[Lexicog] Early Citations for _Machine-Readable Dictionary_

[amsler at CS.UTEXAS.EDU]

I stand corrected. The origin of "machine-readable dictionary" goes  
back to John Olney, et al. who created the first widely distributed  
MRDs for the Merriam-Webster Seventh Collegiate and Merriam-Webster  
New Pocket Dictionary at System Development Corporation.

Dr. Robert A. Amsler.



Quoting "Shapiro, Fred" <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>:

> 1972 _Computers and the Humanities_ May 306  J. C. Olney, and D.   
> Ramsey, "From Machine-Readable Dictionaries to a Lexicon Tester:   
> Progress, Plans, and an Offer," _Computer Studies in the Humanities   
> and Verbal Behavior_ (in press).  [THE ARTICLE REFERRED TO WAS   
> PUBLISHED IN NOV. 1972]
>
> 1973 _Computers and the Humanities_ Jan. 182  The text itself   
> requires no special preparation but must be used in conjunction with  
>  a machine-readable dictionary giving the stems for each word-form.   
> ... The data consists simply of the machine-readable dictionary of   
> ancient Greek.
>
> 1974 _Computers and the Humanities_ May 133  After producing the   
> machine-readable text itself, we had to make a concordance, prepare   
> a machine-readable dictionary of Homeric Greek, count frequencies of  
>  stems, find the clumps themselves, and, finally, analyze the results.
>
> Fred Shapiro
> Editor
> YALE BOOK OF QUOTATIONS (Yale University Press)




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