Using Computers in Linguistics

<p>Computing has had a dramatic impact on the discipline of linguistics and is shaping the way we conceptualize both linguistics and language.<br><em>Using Computers in Linguistics</em> 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.<br> 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 resources: the Internet software for fieldwork and teaching linguistics Unix utilities or at computational developments: the availability of electronic texts new methodologies in natural language processing the development of the CELLAR computing environment for linguistic analysis.</p>