The Codex Toletanus of Tacitus' Agricola

Overview of the TACITUS Project

1 Aims of the Project The specific aim of the TACITUS project is to develop interpretation processes for handling casualty reports (casreps), which are messages in free-flowing text about breakdowns of machinery. 1 These interpretation processes will be an essential component, and indeed the principal component, of systems for automatic message routing and systems for the automatic extraction o...

The Ophthalmic Prescriber's Codex

The Archimedes Codex

We learned, of course, something of the curious story of the oldest (by 400 years) surviving manuscript of some of Arch imedes ’ works, collected in a Byzantine codex that contained the end of Equilibrium of Planes , great parts of The Sphere and the Cylinder and Measurement of the Circle, a sizable portion of On Floating Bodies, one folio of The Stomachion, and a large portion of The Method. T...

TACITUS: Research In Text Understanding

The aim of the TACITUS project is to develop a general, domain-independent capability for text understanding that allows for variable levels of analysis, depending on the requirements of the task. Four stages of processing are being developed: preprocessing, syntactic analysis, inferential pragmatics processing, and template generation. Template generation is a straightforward programming task,...

The British Pharmaceutical Codex, 1949