Efficient string matching: an aid to bibliographic search
Communications of the ACM
Artifical intelligence and document processing
SIGDOC '86 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Interactive Editing Systems: Part II
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Document Formatting Systems: Survey, Concepts, and Issues
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
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Communications of the ACM
Technical correspondence: measuring the level of computerization in a country
Communications of the ACM
Technical corrections: Onspelling correction and beyond
Communications of the ACM
Technical correspondence: on spelling correction and beyond. author's repsonse
Communications of the ACM
POPL '82 Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGACT symposium on Principles of programming languages
The new field of “Software Linguistics”: An early-bird view
SCORE '82 Selected papers of the 1982 ACM SIGMETRICS workshop on Software Metrics: part 1
VEEP A VEctor Editor and Preparer
DAC '82 Proceedings of the 19th Design Automation Conference
Computer-based readability indexes
ACM '82 Proceedings of the ACM '82 conference
Computational lexicology: a research program
AFIPS '82 Proceedings of the June 7-10, 1982, national computer conference
IJCAI'87 Proceedings of the 10th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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For many people, writing is painful and editing one's own prose is difficult, tedious, and error-prone. It is often hard to see which parts of a document are difficult to read or how to transform a wordy sentence into a more concise one. It is even harder to discover that one overuses a particular linguistic construct. The system of programs described here helps writers to evaluate documents and to produce better written and more readable prose. The system consists of programs to measure surface features of text that are important to good writing style as well as programs to do some of the tedious jobs of a copy editor. Some of the surface features measured are readability, sentence and word length, sentence type, word usage, and sentence openers. The copy editing programs find spelling errors, wordy phrases, bad diction, some punctuation errors, double words, and split infinitives.