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From: michaelm@bcsaic.UUCP (michael maxwell)
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Subject: Re: Looking for Papers.
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 15:04:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 15:04:43 1986
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In article <324@ucdavis.UUCP> ccrrick@ucdavis.UUCP (Rick Heli) writes:
>...I  need to have a number of stories, articles, or papers...
>If  you  have  any  material which you are willing to let me use,
>please let me know (or just send the file).  It has to be a  file
>I  can  easily move onto an IBM PC disk, so printed pages are not
>of much use.  Any subject or reading level or language  is  fine.

I can think of lots of other uses for such computer-readable text.  We just 
spent a man-day or so typing in the front page of the New York Times, so we
could run our parser program on it (as a test case).  (We would probably have
done better if we got a secretary to do it, but we didn't realize it would be
such a big task.)  I know of lots of sources of such data that you can spend 
big bucks on, but there's probably some public domain stuff out there...  
BTW, we decided against usnet as a source of text because we wanted something 
at a slightly higher level :-)

All seriousness aside, you might consider some of the discussion on
net.origins; some of the articles there are certainly long enough...
(And yes, I do mean "all seriousness aside".)
-- 
Mike Maxwell
Boeing Artificial Intelligence Center
	...uw-beaver!uw-june!bcsaic!michaelm