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> Introduction 1 The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research 2 The Internet: an introduction 3 Education 4 Textual databases 5 The Unix™ language family 6 Software for doing field linguistics 7 Language understanding and the emerging alignment of linguistics and natural language processing 8 Theoretical and computational linguistics: toward a mutual understanding