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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