RAOUL N. SMITH, Ph.D.

Professor Raoul N. Smith E-mail: raouls500@verizon.net

206 Nagog Hill Road Phone: 978.264.4247
Acton, MA 01720

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Linguistics, Brown University, 1968

Dissertation: “A Statistical Study of Russian Vocabulary,” 1968.
Advisor: Henry Kučera

A.M. in Slavic Languages, Brown University, 1964

Thesis topic: “A Stylo-Statistical Analysis of Some Russian Prose Works.”
Advisor: Henry Kučera

A.B. in Russian, Minor in Physics, Brown University, 1963

College Scholar Thesis: “Machine Translation in the Soviet Union”

Other course work:

Northeastern University:
COM5970 Oracle Database Administration, (8 QH course), 2002
LAW2501 Patent Law, (4QH), 2001
LAW2369 Intellectual Property, (4QH), 2000
Certificate, Smaller Business Executive Program, Center for Management Development,
College of Business Administration, (part-time executive program) 1986

Microsoft Corp:
Implementing a Database Design on Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 (1 week course)

Indiana University:
Linguistics Institute, Summer 1964

University of Dayton (while in the USAF):

Part-time, evening division, 1958-1961. (Physics, mathematics, and philosophy)

Syracuse University:
United States Air Force Institute of Technology Russian Language Program, 1957-58,
(intensive immersive Russian) Valedictorian of graduating class.

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 EXPERIENCE

MUSEUM OF RUSSIAN ICONS 2009-2017

Founder and Head, Center for Icon Studies
 Established the Journal of Icon Studies and serve as its Editor
 Translate the Church Slavonic texts on icons
 Analyze the iconography of selected icons
 Develop research library for Museum

RAOUL N. SMITH AND ASSOCIATES, 1987-Present

Principal
Consulting in a variety of areas involving computer systems including software forensics,
software patent validity, infringement, and interference, human-computer interface design, and
database systems.

CHINA EDUCATION CORPORATION, RECRUITMENT DIVISION, Boston, MA

Vice President 2000-2001

The mission of this company was to recruit and place highly qualified computer professionals
from China into jobs in North America.

My responsibilities were to evaluate and edit applicants’ resumes, interview the applicants in
China (two months in Beijing and Shanghai), evaluate their credentials and their potential as
prospective employees, and recommend them for specific positions.

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION

SCIENCE, Boston, MA

Professor Emeritus of Computer Science July 2000- Present

Professor of Computer Science September 1983 – June 2000

Member, Resource Committee, College of Computer and Information Science, 2002-Present

Member, Northeastern University Center for the Advancement of Science Education
Member, Advisory Committee, 1999-2000
Member, University Academic/Co-op Integration Handbook Project, 1998
Member, University Task Force on Alcohol and Other Drug Policy, 1997-98
Member, University Spiritual Life Advisory Board, 1997-2003
Member, Program Committee
Member, Cardinal Cushing Scholarship Committee
Chair, College Merit Review Committee, 1998-99
Chair, College Committee of Full Professors, 1997-98
Member, University Faculty Senate, 1989-91.
Chair, College Sabbatical Leave Committee, 1986-87
Member, University Council on Research and Scholarship 1984-86.
Chair, Committee on Research Strategies for the Next Decade, 1985-86.

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Member, University Search Committee for Provost and Senior Vice-President of Academic
Affairs 1984-85.
Chair, College Graduate Program Committee 1983-85.
Chair, College Hiring Committee 1983-85.
Member, University Graduate Council (New Programs Committee and Committee on Degree
Designations) 1983-85.
Member, University Selection Committee for Dean of Computer Science 1983-84.
Faculty Advisor, NU Student Chapter of Association for Computing Machinery, 1983-84

Research Areas:
Artificial Intelligence, Web-based databases
Representation of Emotions, Multi-modal interfaces
Natural Language Processing, Intelligent Interfaces

Courses taught:
Artificial Intelligence, Database Management Systems,
Knowledge Representation and Inferencing, File Structures,
Natural Language Processing, Transaction Processing
Expert Systems, Software Engineering,
Human-Computer Interface Design, Functional Programming.
Automata and Formal Languages

Director of Research May 1985-February 1986

Wrote proposal and received large equipment grant ($100K) from Digital Equipment
Corporation (VAX 11/750 and IVIS interactive video system).

Director of the Graduate School January 1984-May 1985

 Responsible for establishing the Graduate School for the College of Computer Science.
 Designed the proposal for the M.S. in Computer Science and successfully guided it
through external review and multi-stage internal review.
 Established administrative offices and procedures of the Graduate School.
 Formulated, with representatives of the College of Engineering, an M.S. in Computer
Systems Engineering program.

COGNITIVE COMPUTERS CORPORATION, Newton, MA

Chairman of the Board of Directors 1985-87

Guided the company (dedicated to development of expert systems in chemical analysis) in
setting goals, in developing research and marketing strategies, and in hiring.

GTE LABORATORIES, INC., Waltham, MA January, 1981 - August, 1983

Principal Member of the Technical Staff, Computer Science Laboratory, Department of

Knowledge-Based Systems January 1983-August 1983

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  Developed natural language text generator for intelligent multipurpose communication
expert system, based on FRED, a front-end for databases, written in INTERLISP for the
Xerox Dolphin LISP machine. Conceived of the concept of collocational grammar as a
model for the system. This model, based on human factors studies of queries to
databases, was extended to other task and domain independent applications in response
generation and in parsing.
 Consultant on the interface to the GTE Telenet/American Medical Association Medical
Information Network.

Senior Member of the Technical Staff, GTE Telenet Technology Center, (On sabbatical from
Northwestern University, 1981) January 1981- January 1983.

 Specified the architecture for an intelligent writing assistant and conducted studies of
English text structure (syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic) and cohesion (pronominal
and conjunctive) for generating text in sublanguages and responding cooperatively to
database queries based on the American Medical Association CMIT database.
 Researched knowledge acquisition techniques for deriving knowledge from textual
databases.
 Compiled human factors parameters in human-computer communication. Clarified the
linguistic form of covert language shaping during user interaction with system.
Consulted on the lexical structure of the command language for the GTE Telenet-AMA
Medical Information Network.

NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, Evanston, Illinois September, 1967-December 1981

Tenured Associate Professor of Linguistics and of Slavic Languages and Literatures (joint
appointment) September 1973-December 1981

Chair, Graduate Program, 1972-1980.

Chair, Graduate Curriculum Committee.
Member, University Computing Center Committee, 1973-79.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Program in Computer Studies, 1973-80.
Founding Member, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Computer Literacy, 1980.
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Writing Requirement, 1975-80.
Founder and Head of Interest Group in Theoretical and Applied Lexicography, 1973-80.
Chair, Mars Lecture Committee, 1979-80
University Lecture Committee, 1980-81
Faculty Associate, McCulloch Hall, 1974-81

Research and Teaching:

Computational and Mathematical Linguistics, Syntax, Semantics, Pragmatics, Language of
Advertising, Slavic Linguistics (Structure of Russian, Structure of Czech, History of the
Russian Language, Old Church Slavonic), History of Linguistics.

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Thesis committees: 18 Doctoral committees--9 in Linguistics, 5 in Computer Science, and one
each in Biomedical Engineering, French, Anthropology, and Learning Disabilities

PhD Thesis Advisor:

William Frawley. The Structure of Academic Knowledge: Theory and Application, 1979
Susan A. Hill. The Teaching of Meaning in a Second Language Context: A Grammar of Second
Language Grammars, 1979
Jadwiga Starzec Brady. Topics in Polish Phonology, 1975
Edward Robert Maxwell, Jr. Semantic Structures, 1972

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and of Slavic Languages and Literatures (joint

appointment) September 1968-September 1973

Member of the Faculty of the Graduate School.

CAS Committee on Appeals and Advanced Standing, 1969-72.
CAS Committee on Academic Standing, 1973-76.

Instructor of Linguistics September, 1967-September 1968

UNITED STATES AIR FORCE February 1957-February 1961

Electronic data processing specialist, intelligence analyst, and Russian language specialist.
Stationed at
• USAFIT Russian Language School, Syracuse University
• National Security Agency, Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
• USAF Foreign Technologies Division of Aerospace Systems Command, Wright-Patterson
AFB, Ohio
Top Secret Crypto clearance.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

Co-administrator, International Conference on Systems Dynamics, Shanghai, People’s Republic

of China, 1987

Visiting Professor, Department of Information Engineering, Jilin University of Technology,

Changchun, People's Republic of China, Summer (four months), 1985.

Visiting Professor, University of Maine at Orono, Summer 1978.

Instructor, TEFL methodology and English Linguistics, Peace Corps Training Project Tunisia,
Brown University, Summers 1964-66.

Resident Fellow, Stites House, Brown University, 1965-67

Teaching Assistant in Introductory Linguistics and in Computational Linguistics, Brown

University, 1964-67.

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Research assistant on the Brown English Corpus, 1965-66

Programming Languages Taught: SQL, LISP, IBM Assembler, PL/I, Fortran, SNOBOL,
QUEL, HyperTalk, FDL, OPS5, VP-Expert, CLIPS.

Application Systems Taught: Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server NT, Access, Paradox, rbase,
Foxpro, MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

Operating Systems Used: UNIX, Windows NT Server, JCL, Compass, System 7, MS DOS.

Computer Systems used: IBM 7020, 360, 370, 3033, 4381, CDC 3400, 6400, VAX 750, 785,
8650, Pyramid 98x, IBM PC, SUN, Apple Macintosh

Natural Languages: Read and speak French and Russian reasonably well; Read German and
Czech somewhat; have studied Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Latin, and Old Church Slavonic.

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Association for Computing Machinery Grant for Workshop on Mixed Modes of Interaction,
1986.
Digital Equipment Corporation Equipment Grant ($100,000), 1985.
Nominee, Northwestern University College of Arts and Sciences Teaching Award, 1980.
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant RO-21309-75-209, ($38,499) 1975-
1976.
Northwestern University Research Committee Grants, 1976 and 1977-78.
National Endowment for the Humanities Research Grant RO-254-14-76-695, ($28,042) 1976-
1977.
American Council of Learned Societies Grant, ($1995) 1974-75.
American Philosophical Society Grant, Penrose Fund, ($1215) 1974-75.
National Science Foundation Travel Grant to International Conference on Computational
Linguistics, Debrecen, Hungary 1971.
Northwestern University nominee for National Endowment for the Humanities Younger
Humanist Fellowship, 1971
Northwestern University Research Coordination grant, 1968-69
Summer faculty grant-in-aid, Northwestern University, 1968
National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant, 1966-67.
National Science Foundation Fellowship for Mathematical Linguistics Seminar, Linguistics
Institute, UCLA, 1966.
B.A. Ballou Corporation Scholar, Brown Univ., 1962-63.
College Scholar, Brown Univ., 1962-63
Valedictorian, Russian Language Program, USAFIT, Syracuse University, 1958

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 MEMBERSHIP IN AND ADMINISTRATION OF PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES

International Society for Applied Intelligence Member, Review Board

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Association for Computational Linguistics
Representative to American Federation of Information Processing Societies (AFIPS) Education
Committee, 1986-87
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 1969-2000
 Member, Strategic Planning Committee, l987-1989
 Session Chair “Human Factors in Information Filing and Retrieval,” Annual Meeting of
ACM., Dallas, 1982
 Session Chair, Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces, Asilomar Conference Center,
Montery CA, 1988
 Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) (Co-founder)
 Co-Chair, 1981-85
 Chair, CHI83 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, the society's first
national conference, Boston, December, 1983, over 1,000 attendees.
 Member of Program Committee, Panels Chair, and Senior Advisor, CHI85 Conference,
San Francisco
 Co-Chair, CHI86 Conference, Boston
 Organizer and Chair, Workshop on Multi-media and Multi-modal Interfaces, Key West,
1986
 Senior Advisor to CHI 87 Conference, Toronto
 Chair, Nominating Committee, 1986-87
 Member of Advisory Board, 1985-1987
 Member, Conference Planning Committee, 1983-88
 Chair, Audit Committee, 1988-89
 Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence (SIGART)
 Special Interest Group on Language Analysis and Studies in the Humanities

IEEE Computer Society

American Dialect Society
Linguistic Society of America, 1968-
Linguistic Circle of New York
International Linguistics Association
Dictionary Society of North America, 1986-
Member, Committee on Lexicographic Terminology
Modern Language Association
Discussion Group on Lexicography, Chair, 1984-85
Member, Executive Committee, 1980-85
Sigma Xi

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 CONSULTANT

Stenographic Machines, Inc., Skokie, IL (Computer translation of machine stenographic notes)

American Psychoanalytic Association (Index construction for Journal of American

Psychoanalytic Association and semantic networks)

Pattishall, McAuliffe, & Hofstetter, Attorneys-at-Law, Chicago, IL (Miller Brewing Company

v. Schlitz Brewing Co., Linguistic analysis of the word ‘lite/light’ in the context of foods and
beverages, 1977

Love’s Interprises, Inc. v. Wuv’s International, Inc. Cancellation No. 11,352, 1978;

Miles Laboratories, Inc.v. American Medical Systems, Inc., Opposition No. 60,228, 1980;
(deposed)

Jenner and Block, Attorneys-at-Law, Chicago, IL (Science Products Company, Inc. v. Chevron
Chemical Co., Inc., 1978)

Charne, Glassner, Tehan, Clancy, & Taitelman, Attorneys-at-Law, Milwaukee, WI (Henri’s

Food Products, Inc. v. Kraft, Inc., 1983; wrote 79 page lexicographic/semantic analysis of
the word ‘whip’ in the context of food products; testified at trial)

Prism Associates, Baltimore, MD (Natural language interfaces to databases)

Safeguard Business Systems, Philadelphia, PA (Natural language interfaces to databases)

The Associated Corporation, Newport, RI (Natural language semantics in defense information

systems)

Delphic Associates, Inc., Washington, DC (Soviet artificial intelligence)

The China Source, Boston, MA (Graduate programs in Information Engineering in China)

Ministry of Machine Building, People's Republic of China (College programs in computer

science)

Leydig, Voit, & Mayer, Attorneys-at-Law (Trademark infringement)

Digital Equipment Corporation, Hudson, MA (Knowledge representation seminar tutor 1988

and 89; Futures Workshop member, 1989)

CompuMedical, Inc., Natick, MA (New commands in the MUMPS programming language)

Houghton-Mifflin Publishers (On-line grammar checker, 1992)

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Oblon, Spivack, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, Attorneys-at-Law, Arlington, VA (Davidson
et al. v Cannon v Goodman v Buckley et al., Interference No. 102,872, 1993; testified by expert
report)

Fredrikson & Byron, P.A., Minneapolis, MN (Radisson Hotels International v Westin Hotels et
al.: Software patent validity and patent infringement; testified by expert report)

Oblon, Spivack, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, Attorneys-at-Law, Arlington VA (Catalina

Marketing International, Inc. v Incentech, Inc., formerly Credit Verification Corporation, patent
infringement; testified by expert report and deposed, 1999)

Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky, and Popeo PC, Reston, VA (Inline Software Corporation
v. Tendril Software, Inc. copyright infringement, 2000)

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS, AUTHOR:

The Life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) Volume 1 (from his birth through the year 1798), self-
published, 2006. 317 pp.

Dictionary of Artificial Intelligence, New York: Facts on File Publishers,Inc., 1989. Revised
and reprinted by Collins Publishers, Inc. Glasgow, U.K., 1990.
Reviewed in American Reference Books Annual Vol. 21, 1990; Choice September, 1989;
Computing Reviews November, 1989; Intelligence Artificielle au Canada April, 1990; Library
Journal April 15, 1989; Reference Books Bulletin September 1, 1989; Reference and Research
Books News August, 1989; Science Activities Feb/Mar, 1989; Science Books and Films
Sep/Oct, 1989; Science News June 10, 1989; Signal June, 1989; Surrey Book Reviews May,
1989;Wilson Library Bulletin March, 1989.

The Language of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847). Publications of the American Dialect Society,
No. 72. University of Alabama Press, 1985.
Reviewed in SECOL Review 11.1(1987):88-90. The reviewer stated that “anyone considering
undertaking the reconstruction of an American idiolect or dialect …would do well to take
Smith’s study as a model.”

Evens, M.B., B.E. Litowitz, J.A. Markowitz, R.N. Smith, O. Werner. Lexical-Semantic
Relations: A Comparative Survey. Champaign and Alberta: Linguistic Research, Inc. 1980.
Reprinted 1983.
Reviewed in Computing Reviews, 22.9(1981):387; Language, 58.1(1982):242; American
Anthropologist, 84(1982):181-3; The International Journal of Psycholinguistics, 8.1.

Probabilistic Performance Models of Language. Janua Linguarum, series minor, 150. The
Hague: Mouton and Company, 1973.

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 BOOKS AND JOURNALS, EDITOR:

Editor, Journal of Icon Studies, Museum of Russian Icons, 2012-2018.

Frawley, W. and R. N. Smith, eds. special edition, Lexicography, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Autumn,1988).

Technical editor of Jakobson, G. Artificial Intelligence in the Soviet Union. Washington, DC:
Delphic Associates, 1985.

Member, Review Board, Applied Intelligence, The International Journal of Artificial

Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, 1999-Present

ARTICLES:

Henry A. Hundt and Raoul N. Smith “A Teratological Source of Hellhead,” Journal of Icon
Studies, March 2013.

Frawley, William, John T. Murray, and Raoul N. Smith, “Semantics and Narrative in
Therapeutic Discourse,” in Herman, David, ed., Narrative Theory and the Cognitive Sciences,
Palo Alto, CA: CSLI Publications, Stanford University,

Frawley, William J. and Raoul N. Smith, "A Processing Theory of Alexithymia," Journal of
Cognitive Systems Research. 2(2001):189-206.

Frawley, William and Raoul N. Smith, “Alexithymia and the Biocybernetics of Shame,” in
Kaszniak, Alfred Emotions, Qualia, and Consciousness, Proceedings of the International
School of Biocybernetics, Naples, Italy, October 1998.River Edge, NJ: World Scientific
Publishing, Inc., 2001 pp. 494-594.

Smith, Raoul N. and William J. Frawley, "Affective Computing: Medical Applications," In H-J.
Bullinger and J. Ziegler, eds., Human-computer interaction: Ergonomics and user interface:
Proceedings of HCI International 1999 (The 8th International Conference on Human-
Computer Interaction, Munich, Germany) Vol. I. Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates,
Publishers, 2000(843-847).

Smith, Raoul N. and William J. Frawley, "Alex: A Computer Aid for Treating Alexithymia," in
Imam, Ibrahim et al. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Multiple Approaches to Intelligent
Systems (Twelfth International Conference on Industrial and Engineering Applications of
Artificial Intelligence and Expert Systems, Cairo, Egypt),. Berlin: Springer Verlag 1999(362-
371).

Smith, Raoul, Chuan Chung Chen, Fang Fang Feng, and Hector Gomez-Gauchia, "A Massively
Parallel Memory-based Story System for Psychotherapy," Computers and Biomedical
Research, vol 26, pp. 415-423, 1993.

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_____"Dr. Bob: A Massively Parallel Memory-based Expert System for Psychotherapy and
Recovery," Expersys-92, ed. by Attia, F., Flory, A. et al., IITT International, 1992, pp. 343-348.

Decker, David and R. N. Smith, "The Acquisition of Lexical Pragmatics," Proceedings of the
First International Language Acquisition Workshop, International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Detroit. Menlo Park: American Association of Artificial
Intelligence,1989, pp. 13-22.

Frawley, W. and R. N. Smith, "Problems of Lexicographic Form," Lexicography, Vol. 1, No. 3

(1988):161-64.

"Applied Expert Systems," Cutting Edge Technologies and Microcomputer Applications for
Developing Countries. National Academy of Sciences, 1988, pp. 99-107.

Frawley, W. and R. Smith, "Patterns of Textual Coherence in Genre-Specific Discourse,"

Humans and Machines: The Interface through Language ed. by S. Williams, Norwood, NJ:
Ablex, 1985 (145-53).

"Conceptual Primitives in the English Lexicon," Lexicography Today Edmonton, Alberta:

Linguistic Research, Inc. 1985 (99-137).

"The Speech of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847) of Blue Hill, Maine," Annual Proceedings of the
Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife, ed. by P. Benes, Boston University Press, 1985, pp.
70-76.

"On Personal Translators," Translation: Literary, Linguistic, and Philosophical Perspectives,

ed. by W. Frawley, Cranbury, NJ: Associated University Presses, Inc., 1984 (150-8).

Smith, R. and W. Frawley, "Conjunctive Cohesion in Four English Genres," Text 3-

4(1983):347-73.

"An Early American Unpublished Hebrew-English Lexicon," Jewish Language Review,

3(1983):19-28.

Ford, W. and R. Smith, "Collocational Grammar as a Model for Human-Computer Interaction,"

Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Computational Linguistics, Prague,
Czechoslovakia, 1982, Vol. II, pp. 106-10.

Smith, R., D. Bienstock, and E. Housman, "A Collocational Model of Information Transfer,"
Information Interaction: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of
Information Science Vol. 19, 1982, pp. 281-84.

"Computerized Aids to Writing," Linguistics and Literacy, ed. by W. Frawley, Plenum Press,
1982, pp. 189-208.

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"A Functional View of the Linguistics of Advertising," Linguistics and the Professions, Vol. 8
of Advances in Discourse Processes, ed. by R. DiPietro, Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Co.,
1982, pp. 189-99.

"Dialog with a Computer: Issues in Linguistic Ergonomics," Proceedings of IEEE (The Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) National Telecommunications Conference, 1981, pp.
C6.2.1-5.

"On Defining Adjectives: Part III," Dictionaries, 3(1980-81):28-38.

Smith, R. and M. Smith, "Prolegomena to a Linguistic Theory of Marketing Communication,"

Centerpoint 4.2(1980):58-75.

"The Interest in Language and Languages in Colonial and Federal America," Proceedings of the
American Philosophical Society 123.1(1979):29-46.

Evens, M. and R. Smith, "A Lexicon for a Computer Question-Answering System," American
Journal of Computational Linguistics, Microfiches 81 pp. 16-24 and 83 pp. 1-98, 1978.

"Computational Bilingual Lexicography: A la recherche du mot juste," Computer Support to

Translation: Proceedings of the FBIS Seminar, Washington, DC: NTIS, pp. 84-112.

"A Description of the Penobscot and Passamaquoddy Indians in 1808," Man in the Northeast
14(1978):52-56.

Smith, R. and M. Evens, "Generating a Conceptual Network from an Index," Information

Management in the 1980's: Proceedings of the ASIS (American Society for Information
Sciences) Annual Meeting, Vol 14, 1977, Microfiche 8, 12 pp. White Plains, NY: Knowledge
Industry Publications, Inc.

Smith, R. and E. Maxwell, "An English Dictionary for Computerized Syntactic and Semantic
Processing Systems," Computational and Mathematical Linguistics, ed. by A. Zampolli and N.
Calzolari, Florence: Olschki, 1977, pp. 303-22.

"A Bibliography of Books on Language and Languages Printed in the United States through the
Year 1800," Historiographia Linguistica 4.2(1977):207-43.

"An Early Nineteenth Century Penobscot Wordlist," International Journal of American

Linguistics 43(1977):101-4.

Smith, R. and G. Pappin, "The Coded Manuscripts of Johathan Fisher (1768-1847): Some
Techniques in Generating and Editing Parallel Texts, SIGLASH (Special Interest Group on
Language Analysis and Studies in the Humanities of the Association of Computing Machinery)
Newsletter, 9.4(1976):10-21.

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"The Sociology of Language in Johann David Michaelis' Dissertation of 1760," Journal of the
History of the Behavioral Sciences, 12(1976):338-46.

"A Probabilistic Model for Performance," Papers in Computational Linguistics, ed. by F. Papp
and G. Szepe, Hungarian Academy of Sciences and The Hague: Mouton & Co., Janua
Linguarum, Series Major 91, pp. 411-18.

"Interactive Lexicon Construction," Papers in Computational Linguistics Hungarian Academy

of Sciences and Mouton & Co., Janua Linguarum Series Major 91, pp. 161-72.

"The Philosophical Alphabet of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847)," American Speech 50(1975):36-

49.

Kantor, M. and R. Smith, "A Sketch of the Major Developments in Russian Historical
Phonology," Folia Linguistica 7.3/4(1975):389-400.

Maxwell, E. and R. Smith, "A Computerized Lexicon of English," Computers in the

Humanities, ed. by J. C. Mitchell, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974, pp. 124-31.

"The Stylistic Use of Syntactic Features in Some Russian Novels," Language and Style
6.2(1973): 127-34.

"Toward a Representation Scheme for Performance," Linguistics, 108(1973) 78-90.

"Automatic Steno Translation," Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computing Machinery, 1973, pp. 92-96.

"Interactive Lexicon Updating," Computers and the Humanities, 6.3 1972): 137-45.

"A Computer Simulation of Phonological Change," ITL Review for Applied Linguistics,
5(1971): 82-91.

"Automatic Simulation of Historical Change," Preprints of Papers for the International

Conference on Computational Linguistics, Stockholm, 1969, 14 pp.

REVIEWS

Hartman, Steven Lee, “A Universal Alphabet for Experiments in Comparative Phonology,”

Computing Reviews, 23.7(1982):370.

Hockey, Susan, A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities. Computers in the

Humanities.

Mann, W. and J.A. Moore, “Computer Generation of Multiparagraph English Text,” Computing
Reviews, 22.11(1981):502.

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Kjetsaa, Geir, “’And Quietly Flows the Don’ through the Computer,” Computing Reviews,
21.4(1980):158-9.

Morin, Yves-Charles et al. Le Francais de la region de Montreal: Aspects phonetique et

phonologique. International Journal of American Linguistics 43.3(1977):232-3

Thompson, Henry, “Towards a Model of Language Production: Linguistic and Computational

Foundations,” Computing Reviews, 18.9(1977):333-34.

The American Heritage Word Frequency Book and The American Heritage School Dictionary.
Computers and the Humanities, 18.5-6(1974):335-36.

Schuegraf, E.J. and H. S. Heaps,” Selection of Equifrequent Word Fragments for Information
Retrieval: Computing Reviews, 18.9 (1974): 315.

Damerau, F.J., Markov Models and Linguistic Theory, Computers and the
Humanities,8.9(1974):264-65.

Wilks, Y., “The Stanford Machine Translation Project,” Computing Reviews, 15.2(1974):54.

Kaplan, R.M. “A General Syntactic Processor,” Computing Reviews 14.12(1973): 588-89.

Kucera, H. and W.N. Francis, Computational Analysis of Present-Day American English.

Brown Alumni Monthly, February, 1968, p. 20

PRESENTATIONS (Other than those published above)

“The Representation of Hell in Orthodox Iconography,” 51st Congress on Medieval Studies,

Western Michigan University, May 12-15, 2016.

“Demons in a 17th century Icon” Conference of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic
and East European Languages, Boston, MA, 2013.

"A Stylostatistical Comparison of Gogol and Turgenev," New England Linguistic Conference,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., September, 1966

"Early Linguistic Work of Jonathan Fisher," Annual Meeting of the Jonathan Fisher Memorial,
Inc., Blue Hill, Maine, August, 1974

"Computational Techniques in the Analysis of the Manuscripts of Jonathan Fisher Written in

Phonetic and Stenographic Code," Second International Conference on Computers in the
Humanities, Los Angeles, April, read by title, 1975

"Jonathan Fisher, Early American Linguist,” Special Bicentennial Session of the Annual
Meeting of the International Linguistics Association, New York, March, 1976

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"The Function of Certain Indirect Speech Acts in Chekhov's Three Sisters," Meeting of the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Midwest Slavic Conference,
Chicago, May,1976

"Psychological Reality in the Symbols of a Late Eighteenth Century Stenographic Code," First
Annual Symposium on Symbols and Symbol Processes, Las Vegas, August, 1976

"Lexical Semantic Relations: A Critical Survey," Conference on Lexicography, Louisville,

Kentucky, March (with M. Evens, B. Litowitz, and 0. Werner), 1977

"A Lexicon for a Computer Question-Answering System," Annual Meeting of the Association
for Computational Linguistics, Washington, D.C., March. (With M. Evens) 1977

"A Linguistic Theory of Marketing Communications," Graduate School of Management,

Northwestern University, April. 1977

“Linguistics and Writing," Symposium on Written Language sponsored by the Program in

Learning Disabilities, School of Speech, Northwestern University, July, 1977. 1977

"The Interest in Language and Languages in Colonial and Federal America: Bibliographical
Analysis in Linguistic Historiography," Third Annual Conference on Historical Linguistics,
Hamburg, West Germany, August. 1977

"Generating a Conceptual Network from an Index,” Fortieth Annual Conference of the

American Society for Information Science Special Interest Group in Arts and Humanities.
September, 1977

“A Production Model of Text: The Generation of Advertising Copy," Session on Computers

and the Study of Language, Modern Language Association annual meeting, Chicago,
December. 1977

“The Language of Advertising," guest speaker, Executive Master's Program, Kellogg Graduate
School of Management, Northwestern University, April. 1978

“A Functional View of the Linguistics of Advertising,” Delaware Symposium on Language

Studies: Language in the Professions, University of Delaware, October, 1980

“The Conceptual Structure of the English Lexicon,” Lexicography Session, Modern Language
Association, Houston, December, 1980.

“Collocation and collocational relations: Which ones are captured in W7 and how they can be
used in parsing and text generation,” NSF Workshop on Machine-Readable Dictionaries,
Stanford University, 11-13 April , 1983

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“Semantic Primitives for Commonsense Reasoning,” National Television University, High-
Tech Forum, January, 1988, June 1989

“Computer Aids for Treating Alexithymia,” Emotions Week, Geneva, Switzerland, 1995

”Emotions in Human-Computer Interaction,” Basic Research Symposium, CHI 96, Vancouver,

BC

“Emotions in Virtual Reality,” Workshop on Virtual Reality, CHI 96, Vancouver, BC

INVITED LECTURES

Boston Computer Society Medical and Dental SIG, January, 1985

Shenyang Institute of Automation, Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China, August,

1985

Fudan and Jiao Tung Universities, Shanghai, People's Republic of China, August, 1985

Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, September, 1985

Korean Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Seoul, Korea,
September, 1985

Japanese Association of College Teachers, Tokyo, Japan, September, 1985

Boston Chapter of ACM SIGSHI Inaugural Lecture, November, 1985

National Academy of Sciences Symposium on Applied Expert Systems, session keynote,

Lisbon, Portugal, September, 1986

“Natural Language Interfaces,” Greater Boston Chapter of ACM, February, 1987

“Computer Aids for Alexithymia and Addiction,” Columbia Medical School Department of
Medical Informatics, October, 1996

“Computers and Emotions,” Colloquium Series, Cognitive Science Program, University of

Delaware, April, 1997

“Computer Literacy in General Education: Notes form the Field,” University of Delaware,
1999.

TUTORIALS

"Natural Language Interfaces," CHI86 Tutorial, Association for Computing Machinery, 1986.

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“Knowledge Representation and Reasoning,” Artificial Intelligence Center, Digital Equipment
Corporation, April 1988, May 1989 (One-week seminars)

“Intelligent Interfaces,” Tutorial, Artificial Intelligence in Government Systems Conference,

GWU, Washington, DC, March 1989

“Translating the Texts on Icons,” Museum of Russian Icons, May 2011 and Ohio State
University, July, 2015.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

“Russian Corpus R1,” Department of Linguistics, Brown University, 1965.

“Some Clues to Word Boundary Identification,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“Issues Regarding Idiosyncratic Rules and their Relation to the Dictionary,” Stenographic
Machines, Inc. 1973.

“Aspects of the form, function, and implementation of the grammar,” Stenographic Machines,
Inc. 1973.

“First Draft of the Grammar,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“Modified Test Version of Grammar S1,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“Mini Test Dictionary,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“The A/AN Rule,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“English Grammar S1,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

“On Using Probabilities of Lexical Collocation in Disambiguating Steno Strokings,”

Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

An Implementation of the Grammar,” Stenographic Machines, Inc. 1973.

"The Function and Form of Written Communication," GTE Labs TR 81-401.2, 1981. (Paper
presented at Symposium on Written Language, Northwestern University, 1980).

Linguistic Human Factors Issues in the Development of FRED—An Intelligent Front-End for
Databases, GTE Labs TN 81-404.8, April, 1981.

"Automatic Text Generation: A Survey," GTE Labs TN 82-408.1.

"A Generalized Architecture for Text Generation," GTE Labs TN 82-408.2.

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“A Selected Bibliography of Recent Work on Collocation and Lexicography,” GTE Labs June,
1982.

“The Holy Archangel Michael and Scenes of his Deeds—A Contemporary Icon (2010) by
Alyona Knyazeva” Occasional Papers in Icon Studies Museum of Russian Icons.

Collins Daniel E. and Raoul N. Smith “Inscriptions on the Icon of the Descent into Hell and the
Resurrection of Christ with the Story of the Good thief (R2011.90)” Occasional Papers in Icon
Studies Museum of Russian Icons.

“Observations on some Lexical and Paleographic Features of an Inscription on Icon R2007.46,

Mother of God, in thee Rejoiceth.” Occasional Papers in Icon Studies Museum of Russian
Icons.

“The Ladder of Divine Ascent—A Codex and an Icon (R2008.37)” Occasional Papers in Icon
Studies Museum of Russian Icons.

“The Stroganov Mineya Icons,” Occasional Papers in Icon Studies Museum of Russian Icons.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Who's Who in America, 53rd ed., 1999-

Who's Who in the World, 15th ed., 1998-

Directory of American Scholars

Dictionary of International Biography

International Directory of Education

Who’s Who in Technology Today

Men of Achievement

Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 2000-

Who's Who in Finance and Industry, 31st ed., 2000-

Who's Who in the East, 27th ed. 1999-

Who’s Who in American Education, 6th ed., 2003-

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American Men and Women of Science, 20th ed.

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Acton Historical Society, Acton, MA, 1983-Present

Trustee, Hosmer House, 1988-90

Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, MA,

Incorporator, 2012-2013

Acton Historical Commission, Member, 2017

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