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Computer editing of verbal texts. Part I. The ESI system

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  • Michael P. Barnett
  • K. L. Kelley

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A program has been written that enables the IBM 709 computer to read the representation of a text that has been punched on a Flexowriter tape, to read the corresponding representation of a list of changes that are to be made in this text, and then to produce mechanically the representation of the altered text on a further Flexowriter tape from which the altered text may be typed mechanically. The changes (or ‘editing instructions’) are expressed in a stylized instruction language; that is, they have the form of English sentences that can be understood without any knowledge of coding conventions. These sentences are analyzed within the computer by a syntactic analysis subroutine which uses the “local syntax” that has been specified for the editing instructions as data.

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  • Michael P. Barnett & K. L. Kelley, 1963. "Computer editing of verbal texts. Part I. The ESI system," American Documentation, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 14(2), pages 99-108, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:amedoc:v:14:y:1963:i:2:p:99-108
    DOI: 10.1002/asi.5090140205
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