Hypertext and the Oxford English dictionary

1 July 1988

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 31 (7) , 871-879
https://doi.org/10.1145/48511.48517

Abstract

Hypertext databases can be produced by converting existing text documents to electronic form. The basic task in conversion is identification of fragments. We illustrate that this is not always a straightforward process with an analysis of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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