New OED Publications

UW Centre for the New OED and Text Research
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1
Canada

fwtompa@uwaterloo.ca
fax: (519) 885-1208


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

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.