[open-humanities] The Horty Project

Sat Oct 10 12:00:28 UTC 2015

Thanks for this, v helpful.

Best,

John

On 05/10/2015 17:01, Tom Morris wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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