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TheDictionary of Old English is sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. It is under the editorship of Christopher Ball, Lincoln College, Oxford, and Angus Cameron, the Centre for Medieval Studies.
An extremely interesting and informative article on dictionary production, which discusses at length many of the information processing requirements of a dictionary, with many details of the size of the corpuses and of the collections of quotations for a number of dictionary projects, can be found in A. J. Aitken, “Historical Dictionaries and the Computer,”The Computer in Literary and Linguistic Research, ed. R. A. Wisbey, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971, pp. 3–17.
For examples of these, see A. J. Aitken and P. Bratley, “An Archive of Older Scottish Texts for Scanning by Computer,”English Studies, 48 (1967), 60–61; A. J. Aitken and P. Bratley, “An Archive of Older Scottish Texts for Scanning by Computer,”Studies in Scottish Literature, 4 (1966), 45–47; J. L. Robinson and R. W. Bailey, “Computer-Produced Microfilm in Lexicography: Toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English,”The Computer and Literary Studies, ed. A. J. Aitken et al. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973, pp. 3–14.
These operations are described with considerable detail in R. L. Venezky, “Computational Aids to Dictionary Compilation,”A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973, pp. 307–327.
A. J. Aitken, “Historical Dictionaries and the Computer.”
See C. J. E. Ball and A. Cameron, “Some Specimen Entries for the Dictionary of Old English,”A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed. R. Frank and A. Cameron, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973, pp. 329–347.
J. Leyerle, “The Dictionary of Old English: A Progress Report,”Computers and the Humanities 5:5 (1971), 279–284.
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The work described in this paper was supported by the Canada Council and the Canadian National Research Council. Thanks are due to A. J. Aitken and Richard L. Venezky for several helpful criticisms and suggestions.
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Bratley, P., Lusignan, S. Information processing in dictionary making: Some technical guidelines. Comput Hum 10, 133–143 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02426299
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