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From: "John P. Linderman" <jpl.jpl@gmail.com>
To: Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2022 15:55:43 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC0cEp_4OYs4gAkpWUn5D+MrjC-YqDN+JxnizsKMU5uy+6f1sA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <904976bf-1673-3888-504c-4eec5468648d@aueb.gr>

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Someone unearthed a 1982 video in which Lorinda explains some of her work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvDZLjaCJuw&t=828s

You can watch the whole thing by just lopping off the '&t=828s' at the end.

On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 2:18 PM Diomidis Spinellis <dds@aueb.gr> wrote:

> A description of text processing work at Bell Labs, including the use of
> trigrams for spell checking, readability analysis, and word class
> assignment was published in the BSTJ.
>
> L. E. McMahon; L. L. Cherry; R. Morris. Statistical text processing. The
> Bell System Technical Journal, 57(6):2137-2154, July-Aug. 1978.
> DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-7305.1978.tb02146.x
>
> You can find it openly available online at:
> https://archive.org/details/bstj57-6-2137/mode/2up
>
> The article was part of an amazing special issue of BSTJ devoted to
> Unix.  A second such issue, 63(8) was published on October 1984.  In the
> late 1980s both issues were also sold as books by Prentice Hall under
> the title "UNIX System Readings and Applications".  I broke the bank
> buying them as a student, but didn't regret it.
>
> Diomidis - https://www.spinellis.gr
>
> On 16-Feb-22 2:09, George Michaelson wrote:
> > The trigraph spelling checker sounds wonderful.
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-16 21:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-15 22:31 Douglas McIlroy
2022-02-15 23:32 ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-15 23:43   ` Jim Capp
2022-02-15 23:51     ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16  0:54       ` Will Senn
2022-02-16  2:58         ` Steve Nickolas
2022-02-16  0:09 ` George Michaelson
2022-02-16  0:24   ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16  7:54     ` arnold
2022-02-16  8:13       ` markus schnalke
2022-02-16 14:54         ` Leah Neukirchen
2022-02-16 22:27           ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16 22:40             ` Andrew Diller
2022-02-17 10:14               ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2022-02-17 15:50                 ` Adam Thornton
2022-02-17 20:23                   ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-17 10:24               ` Andy Kosela
2022-02-17 16:05                 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-17 16:38                   ` Warner Losh
2022-02-16 22:42             ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16 22:56               ` Clem Cole
2022-02-16 23:49                 ` Paul Winalski
2022-02-16 23:49               ` [TUHS] Benchmarks Bakul Shah
2022-02-17  1:02                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-17 12:36             ` [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Stuart Remphrey
2022-02-17 19:59           ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-02-17 21:18             ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-17 21:44               ` Bakul Shah
2022-02-18  8:33                 ` Otto Moerbeek
2022-02-22 10:39                   ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-22 15:53                     ` Otto Moerbeek
2022-02-20 17:29                 ` Derek Fawcus
2022-02-17 22:00               ` David Arnold
2022-02-18  9:58               ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2022-02-16 14:34     ` [TUHS] dc after bc Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 19:08   ` [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Diomidis Spinellis
2022-02-16 20:55     ` John P. Linderman [this message]
2022-02-16 21:17       ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16 21:59       ` Marshall Conover
2022-02-17  5:51     ` arnold
2022-02-17 22:09     ` Will Senn
2022-02-16  0:35 ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16  8:02 ` Thomas Paulsen
2022-02-16 14:05 ` [TUHS] Shower of Dogs Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 14:09   ` Andrew Hume
2022-02-16 15:01     ` Larry McVoy
2022-02-16 16:57     ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-02-16 17:03     ` Dennis Boone
2022-02-16 17:18       ` Warner Losh
2022-02-16 14:09   ` Chet Ramey
2022-02-16 14:35     ` Ron Natalie
2022-02-16 14:41     ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-02-16 15:08   ` Rich Morin
2022-02-16 21:21     ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-16 21:25       ` John Cowan
2022-02-17  3:31         ` Chet Ramey
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-02-22  0:02 [TUHS] Lorinda Cherry Brian Walden
2022-03-01 21:51 ` Terry Jones
2022-02-18  3:18 Norman Wilson
2022-02-18  9:10 ` Peter Jeremy via TUHS
2022-02-15 21:17 John P. Linderman
2022-02-15 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-02-15 21:33 ` Jeffrey Joshua Rollin

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