Selected bibliography
Attar, R., Fraenkel, A.S. and Stein, J. (1976), Local Feedback in Full-Text English and Hebrew Retrieval Systems, Tech. report no. 5, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics (IRCOL), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 84 pp.
Attar, R., Choueka, Y. and Fraenkel, A.S. (1978), KEDMA —linguistic tools for retrieval systems, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 25 (1), 52–66.
Choueka, Y., Cohen, M., Dueck, J., Fraenkel, A.S. and Slae, M. (1971), Full-text document retrieval, Hebrew legal texts (Report on the first phase of the Responsa Retrieval Project). Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Information Storage and Retrieval, eds. J. Minker and S. Rosenfeld, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, pp. 61–69. An expanded version of this paper appeared as Heft 3, Arbeitspapiere Rechtsinformatik. Berlin: J. Schweitzer Verlag, 1972, 64 pp.
Choueka, Y. (1972), Fast searching and retrieval techniques for large dictionaries and concordances, Hebrew Computational Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 6, 12–32 (Hebrew).
Choueka, Y. and Dreizin, F. (1976), Mechanical resolution of lexical ambiguity in a coherent text: algorithms and experimental results, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 76), Ottawa, Canada, paper 43.
Fraenkel, A.S. and Spitz, E. (1975), Automatic construction of Hebrew concordances with ramifications to English concordances, Tech. report no. 1, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics (IRCOL), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 55 pp.
Fraenkel, A.S. (1975), All about the Responsa Project you always wanted to known but were afraid to ask, Proceedings of the Third Symposium on Legal Data Processing in Europe, Oslo, Council of Europe, Strasbourg (1976) 131–141; also in Jurimetrics Journal 16 (1976) 149–156 and Informatica e Diritto 2 (1976) 362–370.
Deutsh, S. (1973), The Element of “Gemirut Da'at” (firmness of resolution) in Conveyances and Obligations (Master's Thesis), Faculty of Law, University of Tel-Aviv, Tel-Aviv (Hebrew).
Kaddari, M.Z. (1974), A Study in Diachronic Hebrew Syntax, the Chanoch Yelon Book (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) 471–498 (Hebrew); English abstract: pp. xxx.
Keren, Z., (1973), Musicological information in the response of Rivash, Rosh and Rashba, Sinai, 74, 81–84 (Hebrew).
Moreshet, M. (1977), The influence of Leshon Hakhamin on later layers of the Hebrew language, Bikoret VeParshanut (Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan) Vol. 9–10, 239–251 (Hebrew).
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Slae, M. (1969), References to Marranos in the Responsa of Rabbi Isaac Bar Sheshet; information retrieval by computer, Bar-Ilan University Year Book, eds. H. Hirschberg and M. Beer, Vol. 7–8, Hebrew section: pp. 397–419; English section: pp. XLVII–LXIV.
Slae, M. (1970), The Occult in the Rivash Responsa, Shanah BeShanah 5731, ed. A. Pechenick, Heichal Shlomo, Jerusalem, 226–236 (Hebrew).
Slae, M. (1974), Glass in the Responsa literature: a study by Computer, Niv-Hamidrashia, 11, 110–119.
Slae, M. (1973), Insurance in Halachic sources, Tech rep. no. 3, Institute for Information Retrieval and Computational Linguistics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 77 pp. (Hebrew).
Slae, M. (1976), Tiyul (promenade) in the Response literature, HaMa'yan, 16 (3), 17–35 (Hebrew).
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Weinberger, Y. (1977), Euthanasia in Hebrew Law, Dine Israel (Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv), Vol. 7, 99–127 (Hebrew).
Wertheimer, Y. (1976), On Omnam and its combinations, Leshonenu (Academy of Hebrew Language, Jerusalem), Vol. 40, 233–249 (Hebrew).
The retrieval system and its technical aspects
Attar, R. and Fraenkel, A.S. (1977), Local feedback in full-text retrieval systems, Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 24 (3), 394–417.
Uses of the system for research in the humanities
Bar-El, Y. (1977), A Dictionary of Yiddish in the Responsa of Ashkenaz Rabbis in 13th–15th Centuries, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel, 93 pp. (Hebrew).
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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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