Our task was made possible by the fact that while far from being a database in the accepted sense of the word , the LDOCE typesetting tape is the only truly computerised dictionary of English ( Michiels , 1983 ) .
automatic analysis of texts in informatics 7
Archibal Michiels
Given that we were targeting all envisaged access routes from LDOCE to systems implemented in Lisp , and since the natural data structure for Lisp is the s-expression , we adopted the approach of converting the tape source into a set of list structures , one per entry . Our task was made possible by the fact that while far from being a database in the accepted sense of the word , the LDOCE typesetting tape is the only truly computerised dictionary of English ( Michiels , 1983 ) . The logical structure of a dictionary entry is reflected on the tape as a sequence of typed records ( see Figure 1 ) , each with additional internal segmentation , where records and fields correspond to separate units in an entry , such as headword , pronunciation , grammar code , word senses , and so forth .
Our task was made possible by the fact that while far from being a database in the accepted sense of the word , the LDOCE typesetting tape is the only truly computerised dictionary of English ( @@CITATION ) .