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From: sharp@usceast.UUCP (Harry Sharp)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books,rec.arts.poems,comp.sys.next
Subject: Searching for Machine Readable Shakespeare
Keywords: machine, readable, Shakespeare, bard
Message-ID: <2815@usceast.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 00:18:52 GMT
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Greetings,

	I wish to open with an apology to anyone who deems this an inappropriate
posting to this net.group.  I could not find a more appropriate group and my
system manager recommended this one as a likely place to begin my search.

	I am a graduate student in computer science at the University of South
Carolina.  I have begun work on my master's thesis and am in need of a resource
which we don't have here at USC: specifically, the works of Shakespeare in
machine readable format.

	My topic is a method of text analysis related to factor or cluster
analysis.  A friend of mine began the research and I am attempting to verify
the results of her thesis, or maybe disprove them, whichever conclusion the
data supports.  Currently the basis for the research is the complete works of
Jane Austen, a grand total of six books. Not only is this an inadequate sample
size (from a statistical point of view) but I don't want to read Jane Austen
novels (as my advisor wants).  Shakespeare would be much more palatable.

	If anyone has some or any of the works on-line or knows of a pointer to
the works, I would be most appreciative.

	Many thanks,
		Harry Sharp


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