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Raymond, D.R., Tompa, F.W., "Hypertext and the Oxford English Dictionary,", Communications of the ACM, 31, 7, July 1988, pp. 871-879. Google

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872 ;;Quote: statistics on the history and size of the Oxford English Dictionary and Supplement
872 ;;Quote: rapid string searching is useful for browsing; can navigate within vicinity of hits
873 ;;Quote: fragmentation is important to Hypertext; ideally into independent concepts such as footnotes, references, annotations
873 ;;Quote: Hypertext link is a relationship between a source and destination node
873 ;;Quote: many ideas are not confined to discrete fragments, e.g., Hamlet's indecisiveness
873 ;;Quote: the implicit structure of a linear document can be more effective than the explicit structure of Hypertext
873 ;;Quote: a dictionary entry conveys implicit information through the relative sizes and arrangement of its parts
873 ;;Quote: the OED entry for 'set' takes almost half a megabyte; some entries have hundreds of quotations
875 ;;Quote: need to identify the word to be defined, e.g., 'digging out'
877 ;;Quote: rapid searching and dynamic fragmentation reduces the need for explicit links
878 ;;Quote: quotations form the source of OED entries; editors arrange quotation slips on a desktop looking for patterns
878+ ;;Quote: OED editors must arrange thousands of quotation slips while computerized systems handle tens of slips


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