Re: [gutvol-d] Early ebook history info wanted

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Carlo Traverso wrote:

In Pisa, there is an institute of computational linguistics, http://www.ilc.cnr.it/ who originated from a research group of the national univerity computing center in 1967.

I think that there has been work even earlier, probably 1965, and I remember that they began with the input of Dante's Commedia and the creation of concordances. I can retrieve more accurate informations if needed.

Our first Webmaster, Pietro di Miceli, is Italian, living in Rome, and I think he heard of this but that it was so walled off from any public consumption that no one he knew could get to it, so it pretty much remained in the area of rumor. Michael