Bibliography of the scientific works of Margaret Masterman

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Masterman, M. (1949, 1951, 1953) ‘Three Attempts to Exemplify the Pictorial Principle in Language. (1) The Word ‘Philosophy’ as used by John Wisdom (1949); (2) Towards a Symbolism for Dogmatic Theology (1951); (3) Analysis of a Religious Paradox (1953)’. Unpublished manuscripts.

Masterman, M.(1953) ‘The Pictorial Principle in Language’. In: Proceedings of XIth International Congress of Philosophy, vol. 14, pp. 1011–27.

Masterman, M.(1954) ‘Words’. In: Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 54, pp. 209–32.

Masterman, M.(1956) ‘The Potentialities of a Mechanical Thesaurus’. Paper read at the Second International Conference on Machine Translation, MIT, October.

Masterman, M.(1957a) ‘Metaphysical and Ideographic Language’. In: British Philosophy in the Mid-Century (Mace, C. A., Ed.), London, Allan and Unwin pp. 314–37.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1957b) ‘Metaphysics’. Paper read to the Cambridge University Moral Science Club, 30 May (chapter 2, this volume).

Masterman, M.(1958) ‘The Thesaurus in Syntax and Semantics’. Machine Translation, vol. 4, pp. 35–43.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1959) ‘Classification, Concept Formation and Language’. Paper presented at the Fourth Annual Conference of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science, September (chapter 3, this volume).

Masterman, M., Needham, R. M. and Spärck Jones, K. (1959) ‘The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval’. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Scientific Information, Washington, DC National Academy of Sciences, pp. 917–33.

Masterman, M. (1961) ‘Translation’. Aristotelian Society SupplementaryVolume 35, pp. 169–216.CrossRef Google Scholar

Masterman, M. and Parker-Rhodes, A. F. (1961) ‘A New Model of Syntactic Description’. Paper read at the International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, September.

Masterman, M. (1962a) ‘Semantic Message Detection for Machine Translation, Using an Interlingua’. In: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Machine Translation of Languages and Applied Language Analysis, HMSO, London, pp. 437–56.

Masterman, M.(1962b) ‘The Intellect's New Eye’. In: Freeing the Mind. Articles and Letters from the Times Literary Supplement 3/6, March–June, pp. 62–4.

Masterman, M.(1963) ‘Commentary on the Guberina Hypothesis’. Methodos, vol. 15, pp. 107–17.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1964) ‘The Semantic Basis of Human Communication’. Arena, No. 19, April, pp. 18–40.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1965) ‘Semantic Algorithms’. In: Proceedings of the Conference on Computer-Related Semantics in Las Vegas, NV. December 3–5, pp. 174–87.

Masterman, M.(1967) ‘Mechanical Pidgin Translation’. In: Machine Translation (Booth, A. D., Ed.) North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 263–79.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Man-aided Computer Translation from English into French Using an On-line System to Manipulate a Bi-lingual Conceptual Dictionary, or Thesaurus’. Paper read at the Deuxième Conférence Internationale sur le Traitement Automatique des Languages, Grenoble.

Masterman, M.(1970a) ‘Bible Translating by “Kernel”’. Times Literary Supplement, 19 March, p. 299.

Masterman, M.(1970b) ‘The Nature of a Paradigm’. In: Criticism and the Growth of Knowledge (Lakatos, I. and Musgrave, A., Eds.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 59–89.CrossRef Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1973) ‘Interlinguas’. Paper presented at Informatics I Conference, 11–13 April, Cambridge.

Masterman, M. (1975) ‘Life, Death and Resurrection of the Academic Woman: Expounded by Playing the Paranormix Game’. Fawcett lecture, University of London, Bedford College.

Masterman, M.(1977) ‘The Primary Unit of Aboutness’. Seminar on ‘Aboutness’, held at ASLIB, London, 17 April.

Masterman, M.(1977) ‘Reiterative Analysis of a Simile. Part I: The Nature and Stages of the Process’. Theoria to Theory, vol. 11, pp. 57–68.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘Reiterative Analysis of a Simile. Part II: The Second Instalment of a Philosophic Serial’. Theoria to Theory, vol. 12, pp. 17–29.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘Reiterative Analysis of a Simile. Part III: The Third Instalment of a Philosophic Serial’. Theoria to Theory, vol. 12, pp. 123–34.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘Reiterative Analysis of a Simile. Part IV: The Fourth Instalment of a Philosophic Serial’. Theoria to Theory, vol. 12, pp. 191–204.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘Can we Progress in Determining Criteria for Evaluating Machine Translation?’ Paper for Workshop on Evaluation in Translation Systems, Luxembourg, 28 February.

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘Reiterative Semantics’. Paper for Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Science Group, 6 June.

Masterman, M.(1978) ‘The Basic Reiterative Semantic’. In: Informatics 3. Proceedings of a Conference held by ASLIB Co-ordinate Indexing Group on 2–4 April 1975 at Emmanuel College, Cambridge (Jones, K. P. and Horswell, V., Eds.), ASLIB, Cambridge, pp. 103–13.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1979) ‘The Essential Mechanism of Machine Translation’, Paper read at the British Computer Society, January.

Masterman, M.(1979) ‘Rhetorical punctuation by machine’. In: Advances in Computer-Aided Literary and Linguistic Research (Ager, D. E., Knowles, F. E. and Smith, J., Eds.), University of Aston, Birmingham, pp. 271–91.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1979) ‘The Essential Skills to Be Acquired for Machine Translation’. In: Translating and the Computer (Snell, B. M., Ed.), North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 86–97.Google Scholar

Masterman, M. (1979) ‘The Implications of Machine Translation for Language Learning’. Obtainable from Linguaphone House, Bearbore Lane, Hammersmith, London.

Masterman, M.(1980) ‘Braithwaite and Kuhn: Analogy-clusters within and without Hypothetico-deductive Systems in Science’. In: Science, Belief and Behaviour: Essays in Honour of R. B. Braithwaite (Mellor, D. H., Ed.) Cambridge University Press, pp. 63–95.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1981) ‘First Impressions of a Whiteheadian Model of Language’. In: Whitehead and the Idea of Process (Holz, H. and Wolf-Gazo, E., Eds.). Proceedings of The First International Whitehead-Symposium, Karl Alber, Freiburg/Munich, pp. 21–42.Google Scholar

Masterman, M.(1982) ‘The Limits of Innovation in Machine Translation’. In: Practical Experience of Machine Translation (Lawson, V., Ed.) North-Holland, Amsterdam, pp. 163–86.Google Scholar

Masterman, M. (1956) ‘The Potentialities of a Mechanical Thesaurus’. CLRU memo ML-1 (in this volume, chapter 4).

Masterman, M. and Conway, R. S. (date unknown) ‘How Latin Grammar was Built Up’. From ‘The Making of Latin’, CLRU memo ML-2A.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘The Mechanical Study of Context’. CLRU 957 Project II-memo ML-11A.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Linguistic Problems of Machine Translation’. CLRU memo ML-14.

Masterman, M.(1957) ‘Fans and Heads’. CLRU memo ML-21 (in this volume, chapter 2). Also read as a paper (under the title ‘Metaphysics’) to the Cambridge Moral Sciences Club, 30 May.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘The Use, in Brouwer, of the Terms “Fan”, “Spread”, “Spreadlaw” and “Complementary Law”’. CLRU memo ML-22.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Note on the Properties of the Successor Relation’. CLRU memo ML-22A.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Outline of a Theory of Language’. CLRU memo ML-24.

Masterman, M., Needham, R. M. and Spärck Jones, K. (date unknown) ‘Description of Current Work on Syntax at CLRU’. CLRU memo ML-27.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘The Effect of using Electronic Techniques for Examining Language’. CLRU memo ML-36.

Masterman, M. and Spärck Jones, K. (date unknown) ‘First Thoughts on how to Translate Mechanically with a Thesaurus’. CLRU memo ML-43A.

Masterman, M. and Spärck Jones, K.(date unknown) ‘The Analogy between Mechanical Translation and Library Retrieval’. CLRU memo ML-44.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘Syntax (Monolingual and Interlingual)’. CLRU memo ML-72.

Masterman, M., Needham, R. M., Spärck Jones, K. and Mayoh, B. (1957) ‘Agricola in curvo terram dimovit aratro’. CLRU memo ML-84, November (in this volume, chapter 6).

Masterman, M. (1959) ‘What is a Thesaurus?’. CLRU memo ML-90, June (in this volume, chapter 5).

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Fictitious Sentences in Language’. CLRU memo ML-91.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Classification Concept-Formation and Language’. CLRU memo ML-95.

Masterman, M. and Shillan, D. (1968) Progress Report, Oct.: ‘Text-Handling and Mechanical Translation’. CLRU memo ML-112.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘Manipulating a Thesaurus with a Pidgin Language’. CLRU memo ML-113.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) Half-Yearly Report to the US National Science Foundation: ‘General Mechanical Translation Program for Use on a Digital Computer’. CLRU memo ML-114.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) Final Report: ‘The CLRU Lattice-Theory of Language’. CLRU memo ML-116. ‘The Halliday “Twenty Questions” Analytic Method Re-envisaged as a Procedure’. CLRU memo ML-117.

Masterman, M. and Shillan, D. (date unknown) Progress Report: ‘Work on Text-Handling and Mechanical Translation’. CLRU memo ML-118.

Masterman, M. and Needham, R. M. (1960) ‘Specification and Sample Operations of a Model Thesaurus’. CLRU memo ML-128.

Masterman, M. and Kay, M. (1960) ‘Mechanical Pidgin English (Parts 1 & 2)’. CLRU memo ML-133.

Masterman, M. (1961) ‘Semantic Message Detection for Machine Translation using an Interlingua’. CLRU memo ML-141.

Masterman, M. and Parker-Rhodes, A. F. (date unknown) ‘A New Model of Syntactic Description’. CLRU memo ML-142.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘Commentary on the Guberina Hypothesis’. CLRU memo ML-148 (in this volume, chapter 9).

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘The Theory of the Semantic Basis of Human Communication Applied to the Phonetics of Intonational Form’. CLRU memo ML-155.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Semantic Message Detection Research for Machine Translation (Short Note)’. CLRU memo ML-158A.

Masterman, M. and Wilks, Y. (1964) Annual Summary Report: ‘Semantic Basis of Communication’. CLRU memo ML-167.

Masterman, M., Wilks, Y., Shillan, D., Dobson, J. and Spärck Jones, K. (date unknown) Final Report: ‘Semantic Basis of Communication’. CLRU memo ML-171.

Masterman, M. (1964) ‘A Picture of Language’. CLRU memo ML-180.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Finding Semantic Patterns with a Thesaurus’. CLRU Memo ML-186A.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Parker-Rhodes’ Syntax Program – Its Pros and Cons’. CLRU memo ML-188.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Man-Aided Computer Translation from English into French using an On-line System to Manipulate a Bi-lingual Conceptual Dictionary or Thesaurus’. CLRU memo ML-198.

Masterman, M.(1968a) ‘Semantic Language Games or Philosophy by Computer’. CLRU memo ML-210.

Masterman, M.(1968b) ‘Semantic Algorithms’. CLRU memo (in this volume, chapter 10).

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Computerised Haiku’. CLRU memo ML-221.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Conspectus of CLRU Research’. CLRU memo ML-223.

Masterman, M.(1971) ‘Studies in Mechanical Abstracting (2)’. CLRU memo ML-227, September.

Masterman, M., Bastin, E. W., Parker-Rhodes, A. F. and Braithwaite, R. B. (date unknown) ‘The CLRU New Research Cube: The Search for a Way of Strengthening a General Combinatorial Conception of Information as it occurs in Natural Language’. CLRU memo ML-231.

Masterman, M. (1970) ‘Compute me a poem’. CLRU memo ML-241.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘The E.E.C. Test Sentences. An Exercise in Pre-editing’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 1.

Masterman, M. and Smith, R. J. (date unknown) ‘The Subsenu Experiment’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 2.

Masterman, M. and Smith, R. J.(date unknown) ‘The “Skeletal” Nature of Systran’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 3.

Masterman, M. and Smith, R. J.(date unknown) ‘The Role of Humour’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 4.

Masterman, M. (date unknown) ‘Note for Translators: How to Read Hex’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 5.

Masterman, M.(date unknown) ‘Routine for Finding the Stress Pattern of English’. CLRU, Final Report of TH-17, Annex 7.

Masterman, M. and Williams, B. (1983) ‘Patterns of Emphasis and Heterodynes of Meaning’. CLRU, CLT 007, March.

Masterman, M., Parker-Rhodes, A. F., Blackmore, R. M. and Spärck Jones, K. (1958) ‘Description of the Tests Carried out on Methods of Constructing Sentence Lattices’. CLRU Unnumbered Workpaper.

Masterman, M. and Needham, R. (1966) ‘Natural Language Analysis as Non-Numerical Data Processing’. CLRU Unnumbered Workpaper, January.