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I. The Research Potential of the Electronic OED2 Database: a Guide for Scholars

Donna Lee Berg, Centre for the New Oxford English Dictionary and Text Research, University of Waterloo

Edited for online access and distribution by Willard McCarty, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, University of Toronto, October 1993; converted to HTML January 1995.

Contents

II. Editor's Preface

III. Introduction

IV. The Relationship of the Database to the Dictionary

V. The Structure of the Dictionary and Database

  1. Identifying the Structure
  2. Examples of Structure
  3. The Database Response to Structure
VI. The Software Concept

  1. Using PAT
  2. Viewing search results
VII. The Limitations of the Dictionary Text

VIII. Designing and/or Evaluating a Research Proposal

IX. Conclusions

X. Appendices

  • A. Selective List of OED2 Tags
  • B. OED2 Control File
  • C. Examples of Searches
    1. Example #1
    2. Example #2
    3. Example #3
    4. Example #4
XI. Bibliography

Note the history of revisions for the WWW version of the Guide.


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