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This article is from the Crosswords FAQ, by James A. Lundon (jlundon@xstacy.enet.dec.com) with numerous contributions by others.

4) What technical papers are there about crosswords?

Does anyone know any other E-Mail addresses of the authors detailed
here? It would make correspondence with them much easier.

%T A Prototype Crossword Compiler
%A P.D. Smith and S.Y. Steen
%J The Computer Journal
%V 24/2, pp 107-111
%Y 1981

%T XENO: Computer-Assisted Compilation of Crossword Puzzles
%A P.D. Smith
%J The Computer Journal
%V 26/4, pp 296-302
%Y 1983

%T The Generation of Cryptic Crossword Clues
%A G.W. Smith, J.B.H. Du Boulay
%J The Computer Journal
%V 29/3, pp 282-283
%Y 1986

%T Crossword Compilation with Horn Clauses
%A H. Berghel
%J The Computer Journal
%V 30/2, pp 183-188
%Y 1987

%T Crossword Compilation Using Integer Programming
%A J.M. Wilson
%J The Computer Journal
%V 32/3, pp 273-275
%Y 1989

%T Crossword Compiler-Compilation
%A H. Berghel, C. Yi
%J The Computer Journal
%V 32/3, pp 276-280
%Y 1989

%T A Proposed Standard for Measuring Crossword Compilation Efficiency
%A H. Brerghel, R. Rankin (rrankin@mcs213k.cs.umr.edu)
%J The Computer Journal
%V 33/2 pp 181-184
%Y 1990

%T Computer Assisted Analysis of Cryptic Crosswords
%A P.W. Williams, D. Woodhead
%J The Computer Journal
%V 22/? pp 67
%Y 1979

%T Crossword Compiling Puzzles the Programmer
%A J. Cox
%J Computer Weekly
%V pp 17
%Y 30 August 1979

%T A Program for the Construction of Crossword Puzzles
%A O. Feger
%J Angewandte Informatik
%V 17/5 pp 189-195
%Y 1975

%T An Investigation of Computer Generated Crossword Puzzles
%A L.J. Mazlack
%J P.hD. Dissertation Washington University St. Louis
%V
%Y 1972

%T The Use of Applied Probability in the Computer Construction of Crossword
Puzzles
%A L.J. Mazlack
%J IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control San Diego CA. 5-7 December.
%V pp 497-506
%Y 1973

%T Data Structures Required for Crossword Puzzle Construction
%A L.J Mazleck
%J 36th Annual meeting of the American Society for Information Science L.A
21-25 Oct 1973
%V pp 141-142
%Y 1974

%T Computer Construction of Crossword Puzzles using Precedence Relationships
%A L.J. Mazlack
%J Artificial Intelligence
%V 7/1 pp 1-19
%Y 1976

%T Machine Selection of Elements in Crossword Puzzles
%A L.J. Mazlack
%J SIAM Journal of Computing
%V 5/1, pp 51-72
%Y March 1976

%T Automation of Crossword Puzzle Solutions
%A G. Harris, J. Spring
%J Division Of CAD, Griffith University, Nathan, Australia
%V Manuscript?
%Y 1979

I have been in contact with Geoff Harris and he has said he will send my
on the 6-8 papers he and his colleagues have written about crosswords
over the past few years.

%T Redundancy Exploitation in the Computer Construction of Double-crostic
%A E.S. Spiegelthal
%J Proceedings of the EJCC.
%V pp 39-56
%Y 1960

%T A Program to Solve Crossword Puzzles
%A H.A. Bauer
%J Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
%V
%Y 1973

%T Crossword Compilation Puzzles the Programmer
%A J. Cox
%J Computer Weekly
%V 30 August, pp 17
%Y 1979

%T Automatic Crossword Compilation and Solution
%A E.J. Jushvol
%J B.Sc Thesis. Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
%V
%Y 1984

%T Microprocessor Compilation and Solution of Crosswords
%A R.H. Davis, E.J. Jushwol
%J Microproc. Microsystems
%V 9/10 pp 500-506
%Y 1985

%T PICCUP: a Program for the Interpretation of Cryptic Crossword Clues
%A M. Hart
%J M.Sc Thesis Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.
%V
%Y 1991

%T Cryptic Crossword Clue Interpreter
%A M. Hart, R.H. Davis
%J Information and Software Technology
%V 34/1 pp 16-27
%Y January 1992

%T The world's fastest Scrabble program
%A A.W. Appel, G.J. Jacobson (appel@cs.princeton.edu,guy@ulysses.att.com)
%J Communications of the ACM
%V 31/5 pp 572
%Y May 1988

%T Search Lessons Learned from Crossword Puzzles
%A Matt L. Ginsberg et al
%J Proceedings of AAAI 90
%V ?
%Y 1990?

%T A Crossword Puzzle Generator For Turkish
%A Ilan Berker, A. C. Cem Say
%J international symposium of computer and information sciences 8
%V ?
%Y 1993

In the publication "Word Ways" many crossword related technical papers
have been published. Anyone with a list please?

 

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