19.262 introductions to computational linguistics

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         Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:03:54 +0100
         From: Matthew Zimmerman <mz34_at_nyu.edu>
         Subject: Re: 19.241 introductions to activities in
computational linguistics?

Willard,

I am not sure if it will be helpful, but you might check the last two
chapters of this book I reviewed a few years ago.

http://www.routledge.com/linguistics/using-comp.html

On Sep 1, 2005, at 3:29 AM, Humanist Discussion Group (by way of
Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:

> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 241.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
> Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu
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>
>
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 08:22:42 +0100
> From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
> >computational linguistics?
>
>I would be grateful for recommendations of introductory articles or
>book chapters, written for the intelligent but ignorant reader, on
>what computational linguistics does, what it has achieved so far and
>what practitioners think to be its long-term objectives. I need
>something along these lines to give to postgrad students, to let them
>know what they're missing as well as what they're encountering or
>might encounter in their interactions with commonplace devices.
>Ideally I'd like to find something comprehensive, i.e. that deals
>with the full range of concerns, from theoretical to applied,
>including commercial applications
>
>Many thanks.
>
>Yours,
>WM
>
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