[ih] Fwd: Before You Were Born: We Were Digitizing Texts

[John Klensin]

On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote:

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> but not before many here were born :)
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Sigh.  Work on automatic indexing, classification, and content analysis of
digitized text goes back at least to the mid-1960s and I think much
earlier.  A five-minute search through my files showed up papers by
Edmunson, Lesk, Marcus, Matthews, Reintjes, Salton, Stone, Zimmerman, and
others.  I'm not an expert in the field so assume that there are _many_
others.

But perhaps that was before Ms. Johnston was born and therefore doesn't
count :-(

      john


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>> 12/19/2012 01:48 PM EST
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>> We are all pretty familiar with the process of scanning texts to produce
>> page images and converting them using optical character recognition to
>> full-text indexing and searching. But electronic texts have a far
>> older-pedigree. Text digitization in the cultural heritage sector started
>> in earnest in 1971, when the first Project Gutenberg text — the United [...]
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