<p><strong>Program Overview</strong> </p> <p>JEUDEMO was an information retrieval program for text building on COCOA developed at the University of Montreal by Paul Bratley, Serge Lusignan and Francine Ouellette in the 1970s (Oakman 178).</p> <p>It combined the functions of COCOA with Boolean search capabilities to locate co-occurrences and other patterns:</p> <p style=\"margin-left: 30px;\">The user first defines his on hierarchies of text--word, sentence, paragraph, chapter, etc. Then, using its pattern-searching features, JEUDEMO can look for two words, like \"boy\" and \"dog,\" occurring in the same sentence, in the same paragraph, or within ten words from each other in the whole text. (Oakman 179)</p> <p>JEUDEMO required text to be in punched card or Flexowriter paper tape format (Oakman 178). Its commands were developed with inexperienced programmers, with the aim of making the program accessible to Humanists without computer backgrounds, and an interactive version was planned (178).</p> <p>However, JEUDEMO had a prohibitive drawback, as the developers chose to program it in a system-exclusive language that limited its audience to only those scholars with access to a CDC Cyber 74 system (Oakman 179). Robert Oakman found this requirement to be a major barrier to the program's wide adoption (179).</p> <p>JEUDEMO was nevertheless a notable contribution to text analysis, as Oakman found that \"[c]ompared to COCOA, its forerunner, JEUDEMO offers attractive additional features and a few easy commands that humanists can learn to use quickly\" (179).</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p><strong>Source</strong></p> <p>Oakman, Robert L. <em>Computer Methods for Literary Research</em>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1984.</p>