Re: English Newspapers on CD-ROM
Jeff Adams (jeffa@kurzweil.com)
Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:54:56 -0500
> The problem with them is in getting the data out into a file that
> you can manipulate with your own software. The search engines on
> the disks are pretty much geared to finding articles on a particular
> topic and aren't very useful for linguistic work. Some of the discs
> have their databases in ASCII format and some have to be
> converted. The converting can be a tedious process. You'll need
> someone with fairly advanced computer skills to do the job. I don't
> know if it would be possible to get the vendors to supply
> conversion software but that would be the answer.
Perhaps we could share scripts & programs we have used for
particular disks.
In addition to several on the list that David just sent out,
I have:
Magazine Rack (1991), "a collection of over 100,000 articles from
more than 300 magazines, newsletters, and other publications."
Newsbytes (1992), articles from various computer magazines.
Newsbytes, vol. 3 (1993)
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Jeff Adams
Language Modeling Scientist
Kurzweil AI