The technology of the automatic information processing field has progressed dramatically in the past few years and has created a problem in common term usage. As a solution, "Datamation" Magazine offers this glossary which was compiled by the U.S. Bureau of the Budget as an official reference. The terms appear in a single alphabetic sequence,…

A BASIC SPOKEN GERMAN VOCABULARY IS LISTED IN (1) ALPHABETICAL ORDER, (2) ORDER OF PARTS OF SPEECH, AND (3) ORDER OF FREQUENCY AND ORIGIN. THE SOURCE MATERIALS USED WERE GATHERED IN 400 TAPED INTERVIEWS AND 5,400 WRITTEN RECORDS OF SPONTANEOUS ASSOCIATION. FROM THE DATA GATHERED, EACH SPOKEN WORD OR WORD FORM WAS TRANSFERRED SINGLY AND IN CONTEXT…

THIS BOOK WAS PREPARED TO PROVIDE AN INDEX OF ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS FOR THE BASIC SPOKEN GERMAN WORD LIST BY THE AUTHOR. THE ENGLISH MEANINGS OF EACH GERMAN TERM ARE PRESENTED IN ORDER OF DECREASING FREQUENCY. THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED BY PRENTICE-HALL INC., ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NEW JERSEY 07632, 1965, 107 PAGES. RELATED REPORTS ARE AA 000 101 AND AA 000…

Analyzes a large sample of spelling errors taken from free writing to assess how great a challenge such errors present for automatic checking and correction. Analysis of results reveals a high proportion of errors that match dictionary works, necessitating the use of the word in context to detect errors. (Author/LRW)

Numerical control, a technique for automatically controlling equipment, is a system in which machine actions are determined by symbolic data recorded on a suitable media. This glossary of standardized nomenclature for numerical control defines and describes some 286 technical words and terms. Numerous entries are defined and described as they…

The computer program sets up three dictionaries: basic, fiction, and fantasy. It then processes each essay by parsing the essay into words, checking if the word is a legal word (in the dictionary), and adding it to the essay unique word list. If the word was non-unique, the frequency count for that word in the essay word list is increased by one.…

The development of a method is described for the automatic ordering of texts based on the richness of their vocabularies. It further involves the specification of a basic vocabulary and of a gradual enlargement of this basic vocabulary linked to the study of the texts in the given order. (Author/RM)

AREAS INVESTIGATED INCLUDE SLOW MEMORY DATA STORAGE, THE PROBLEM OF DECODING FROM AN INDEX TO A SLOW MEMORY ADDRESS, THE STRUCTURE OF DATA LISTS AND DATA LIST OPERATORS, COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN THE HUMAN USER AND THE SYSTEM, PROCESSING OF RETRIEVAL REQUESTS, AND THE USER'S CONTROL OVER THE RETURN OF INFORMATION RETRIEVED. LINEAR, LINKED AND…

A simply constructed, psychometrically sound testing procedure which enables the instructor to assess higher cognitive process with respect to the material in questions, and which is amenable to machine scoring, is described. It involves the application of the word association technique long used in psychoanalysis to the classroom setting. The…

Who wrote "The Groatsworth of Wit?" Was it Greene, as hitherto believed, or Chettle? To distinguish between the two writers' styles, and thereby determine the authorship of a 16th Century literary work of particular interest to Shakespearean scholars, computer-aided techniques were employed. The two authors' differing practices in word…