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Roberto Busa

Roberto Busa SJ (November 28, 1913 – August 9, 2011) was an Italian Jesuit priest and one of the pioneers in the usage of computers for linguistic and literary analysis. He was the author of the Index Thomisticus, a complete lemmatization of the works of Saint Thomas Aquinas and of a few related authors.

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The Busa Prize

Later projects

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Roberto Busa

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Roberto Busa

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