[open-humanities] The Horty Project

Mon Oct 5 16:01:07 UTC 2015

There are a number of citations from the early 60s in Google Scholar for
things published in CACM, JSTOR, etc.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=john+f+horty&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C22&as_ylo=&as_yhi=1970

Tom

On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 6:01 AM, John Levin <john at anterotesis.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I recently came across mention of the "Horty Project", set up by John
> Horty in the late 50s / early 60s to use computers to search Pennsylvania
> legislation. The immediate need was to replace the term 'retarded child' in
> the acts, but that there were many other applications became obvious.
>
> A brief account of this can be found at:
> http://ejlt.org/article/view/15/20
> and
> http://what.csc.villanova.edu/~cassel/2500/S2008/Law4.pdf [pdf]
>
> My googling has returned little of substance. So my first question is
> whether the members of this list can provide further information of this
> project.
>
> But my more interesting question is whether this has registered in the
> Digital Humanities, and in its histories of computerised textual analysis?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
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