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Using computers in linguistics : a practical guide / edited by John M. Lawler and Helen Aristar Dry. - xvi, 297 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Includes glossary.


Includes bibliographical references and index.


1. The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research / Gary F. Simons -- 2. The Internet : an introduction / Helen Aristar Dry and Anthony Rodrigues Aristar -- 3. Education / Henry Rogers -- 4. Textual databases / Susan Hockey -- 5. The Unix language family / John M. Lawler -- 6. Software for doing field linguistics / Evan L. Antworth and J. Randolph Valentine -- 7. Language understanding and the emerging alignment of linguistics and natural language processing / James E. Hoard -- 8. Theoretical and computational linguistics : toward a mutual understanding / Samuel Bayer [and others].

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.


ISBN: 0415167930 9780415167932

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Computational linguistics.

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Index Terms--Genre/Form: --Reading book

Dewey Class. No.: 410.285 / USI