Using Computers in Linguistics

by John Lawler (Editor), Helen Aristar Dry (Editor)

Computing has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of linguistics and is shaping the way we conceptualize both linguistics and language.
Using Computers in Linguistics provides a non-technical introduction to recent developments in linguistic computing and offers specific guidance to the linguist or language professional who wishes to take advantage of them.
Divided into eight chapters, each of the expert contributors focus on a different aspect of the interaction of computing and linguistics looking either at computational the Internet, software for fieldwork and teaching linguistics, Unix utilities, or at computational the availability of electronic texts, new methodologies in natural language processing, the development of the CELLAR computing environment for linguistic analysis.

314 pages, Hardcover

First published June 26, 1998

Reviews

[Augurey]

A Practical Guide for those interested in both computers and linguistics, with simplified notions and information, plus explanations of terms and concepts.