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Computerized full-text retrieval systems and research in the humanities: The responsa project

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This paper, an edited version of an invited address given at the Third International Conference on Computing in the Humanities (ICCH/3), Waterloo, 1977, was submitted and revised while the author was on sabbatical leave at the Département d'Informatique and the Institut d'Études Médiévales, University of Montréal, Canada.

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Choueka, Y. Computerized full-text retrieval systems and research in the humanities: The responsa project. Comput Hum 14, 153–169 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02403764

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