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D. A. Ratkowsky, a principal research scientist in the CSIRO Division of Mathematics and Statistics, Hobart, Tasmania, has published on statistical analysis of literary texts.

Hans Fix is a research assistant in the German Department of Bonn University and a member of the special area ‘Elektronische Sprachforschung’ at the University of Saarland.

H.L. Somers is lecturer in computational linguistics in the Centre for Computational Linguistics, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.

Stig Johansson is a reader in English Language, University of Oslo, and co-ordinating secretary of the International Computer Archive of Modern English (ICAME). Some of his publications areSome Aspects of the Vocabulary of Learned and Scientific English (1978),Manual of Information to Accompany the Lancaster-Oslo/Bergen Corpus of British English (with Geoffrey N. Leech and Helen Goodluck, 1978), andWord Frequencies in British and American English (with Knut Hofland, forthcoming).

Dr. Wilhelm Ott is head of the department of literary data processing at the computing center of the University of Tübingen, Federal Republic of Germany.

Paul Bratley, a professor in the Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle of the Université de Montréal, has been involved with computer analysis of natural language since 1960.

Dr. Maribeth Henney is an associate professor of elementary education at the Iowa State University.

For 20 years Michael Leesley has used computer systems in research, design and, until recently, in the classroom to aid in teaching process plant design to university seniors. He is now with Computervision Corporation in Bedford, MA.

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Ratkowsky, D., Fix, H., Somers, H.L. et al. Book reviews. Comput Hum 16, 165–186 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02259760

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