Publications of Nina Macdonald

Articles or Book Chapters

• Hoffman, M.M., O'Gorman, L., Story, G.A., Arnold, J.Q., and Macdonald, N.H. The RightPages Service: An Image-Based Electronic Library, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1993, 44 (8), 446-452.
• Frase, L. T., Macdonald, N.H., and Keenan, S.A. Intuitions, Algorithms, and a Science of Design. Designing Usable Text, T. Duffy and R. Waller (Eds.). New York: Academic Press (1985).
• Macdonald, N.H. The UNIX Writer's Workbench Software: Rationale and Design. Bell System Technical Journal, 1983, 62 (6), 1891-1908. Reprinted in Plain Language: Principles and Practice, Erwin Steinberg (Ed.). Detroit: Wayne State University Press (1991).
• Cherry, L. L. and Macdonald, N.H. THE UNIX WRITER'S WORKBENCH Software: Tools for Writers. BYTE, 1983, 8 (10), 241-248.
• Cherry, L. L., Fox, M. L., Frase, L. T., Gingrich, P. S., Keenan, S. A., and Macdonald, N. H. Computer Aids for Text Analysis. Bell Laboratories Record, 1983, May/June, 10-16.
• Macdonald, N. H., Frase, L. T., Gingrich, P. S., and Keenan, S. A., Writer's Workbench: Computer Aid for Text Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Communications, Special Issue on Communication in the Automated Office, 1982, 30 (1), 105-110. Reprinted in the Educational Psychologist 1982,17, (3), 172-179.
• Frase, L. T., Macdonald, N. H., Gingrich, P. S., Keenan, S. A., and Collymore, J. L. Computer Aids for Text Assessment and Writing Instruction. Performance and lnstruction, 1981, 20 ,21-24.
• Streeter, L. A., Macdonald, N. H., Apple, W., Krauss, R. M. and Galotti, K. M. Acoustic and Perceptual Indicators of Emotional Stress. Journal of the Acoustic Society of America, 1983, 73 (4) 1354-1360.
• Macdonald, Antonina H. The influence of Duration on the Processing of English Sentences. (Doctoral dissertation, University of Michigan, 1979). Dissertation Abstracts International, 1979, 40 (University Microfilms No. AAD79-25187)

Papers Presented at Technical Meetings

• Macdonald, N. H. EXPRESS: An electronic subscription and distribution system. Proceedings of the Bellcore Workshop on High-Performance Information Filtering: Foundations, Architectures and Applications, November 1991.
• Macdonald, N. H. The Writer's Workbench Programs and Their Use in Technical Writing. Proceedings of the 29th International Technical Communication Conference , May, 1982.
• Macdonald, N. H. and M. F. Poller. Language Processing Tools: The Writer's Workbench and Extensions. Proceedings of the AFIPS Office Automation Conference, April, 1982, 667-673.
• Macdonald, Nina H. Pattern Matching and Language Analyses as Editing Supports. Paper presented as part of a symposium on the Writer's Workbench (L. Frase, Chair), at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Boston, 1979.
• Macdonald, Nina H. Duration as a Syntactic Boundary Cue in Ambiguous Sentences. Proceedings of the 1976 IEEE International Conference of Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1976, 565 572.

Talks presented at technical meetings

• Macdonald, Nina H. Computer Aides for Authors: Present and Future. Invited talk for The Third Kenan Convocation on "The Effects of the Computer Revolution on Teaching and Learning," Chapel Hill, NC, June 1984.
• Macdonald, Nina H. "The Writer's Workbench: Tools for Improving Writing." Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, June, 1982.
• Macdonald, Nina. The Writer's Workbench Programs. Talk given as part of a symposium on Computers and Education (A. Melmed, Chair), at the National Computer Conference, Chicago, 1981.
• Macdonald, Nina. Clarifying Technical Jargon: Advice from a Computer. Invited speech to the Northeast Regional Meeting of Women in Communications, Inc., 1981.
• Macdonald, Nina H. and Lorinda L. Cherry. How to Write Better in Thirty Easy Programs. Talk given to a joint meeting of the psychology and computer science divisions of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1981.
• Macdonald, Nina H. The Role of Pauses in Natural Sentence Processing. Talk presented at the Linguistic Society of America Summer Meeting, Urbana-Champaign, 1978.

Media

August 1983

With Lorinda Cherry, discussed the WRITER'S WORKBENCH system on New York's WCBS Channel 2 News program.

January 1982

Described the importance of UNIX system features to the development of the WRITER'S WORKBENCH system in a Bell Labs movie called "UNIX: An Introduction and Overview.

May 1981

With Lorinda Cherry, demonstrated the WRITER'S WORKBENCH system on NBC's Today Show.

1980-1983

Primarily responsible for or interviewed for numerous newspaper and magazine articles and radio interviews.

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