Publications

Recent research on combining text and relational databases and publications arising from that work are described elsewhere.

Technical Reports

OED-87-01

G.H. Gonnet, F.Wm. Tompa, Mind Your Grammar: a New Approach to Modelling Text

OED-87-02

G.H. Gonnet, Examples of PAT Applied to the Oxford English Dictionary

OED-87-03

D.R. Raymond, Y.L. Warburton, Computerization of Lexicographical Activity on the Oxford English Dictionary

OED-87-04

D.R. Raymond, Dispatches from the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary.

OED-87-05

T.J. Benbow et al, Report on the New Oxford English Dictionary User Survey

OED-87-06

D.R. Raymond, F.Wm Tompa, Hypertext and the New Oxford English Dictionary

OED-88-01

D.L. Berg, G.H. Gonnet, F.Wm. Tompa, The New Oxford English Dictionary Project at the University of Waterloo

OED-88-02

G.H. Gonnet, Efficient Searching of Text and Pictures (Extended Abstract)

OED-89-01

R.A. Baeza-Yates, G.H. Gonnet, Efficient Text Searching of Regular Expressions (Preliminary version)

OED-89-02

D.L. Berg, The Research Potential of the Electronic OED2 Database at the University of Waterloo: a Guide for Scholars

OED-89-03

H.J. Fawcett, Adopting SGML: The Implications for Writers

OED-89-04

H.J. Fawcett, Using Tagged Text to Support Online Views

OED-89-05

F.Wm. Tompa, D.R. Raymond, Database Design for a Dynamic Dictionary

OED-89-06

G.V.J. Townsend, Citation Matching in the Oxford English Dictionary

OED-90-01

D.R. Raymond et al, A Potpourri of Prototypes

OED-90-02

D.R. Raymond, lector -- An Interactive Formatter for Tagged Text

OED-90-03

D.R. Raymond, H.J. Fawcett, Playing Detective with Full Text Searching Software

OED-91-01

G.H. Gonnet, R.A. Baeza-Yates, T. Snider, Lexicographical Indices for Text: Inverted files vs. PAT trees

OED-91-02

G.E. Blake, Tim Bray, Frank Wm. Tompa, Shortening the OED: Experience with a Grammar-Defined Database

OED-91-03

David Clark, Finite State Text Transduction Tools

OED-92-01

Frank Wm. Tompa, An Overview of Waterloo's Database Software for the OED

OED-92-02

Airi Salminen, Frank Wm. Tompa, PAT expressions: an algebra for text search

OED-93-01

D.R. Raymond, Frank Wm. Tompa, Derick Wood, Markup Reconsidered

OED-93-02

Andrej Brodnik, Frank Wm. Tompa, A New Architecture to Support Database Updates Through Views

OED-94-01

Hemin Xiao, Using a Thesaurus for Query Refinement in Full-Text Retrieval

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Conference Proceedings

All proceedings are now out of print, but individual articles may be available on request.

• ``Information in Data,'' Proceedings of the First Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1985.
• ``Advances in Lexicology,'' Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1986.
• ``The Uses of Large Text Databases,'' Proceedings of the Third Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, Waterloo, Ontario, November 1987.
• ``Information in Text,'' Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, Waterloo, Ontario, October 1988.
• ``Dictionaries in The Electronic Age,'' Proceedings of the Fifth Annual Conference of the UW Centre for the New OED, Oxford, England, September 1989.
• ``Electronic Text Research,'' Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference of UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research, Waterloo, Ontario, October 1990.
• ``Using Corpora,'' Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research, Oxford, England, September 1991.
• ``Screening Words: User Interfaces for Text,'' Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference of UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research, Waterloo, Ontario, October 1992.
• ``Making Sense of Words,'' Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Conference of UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research, Oxford, England, October 1993.
• ``Reflections on the Future of Text,'' Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research, Waterloo, Ontario, October 1994.