[TUHS] Lorinda Cherry

Diomidis Spinellis dds at aueb.gr
Thu Feb 17 05:08:09 AEST 2022


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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