Computational and quantitative studies / Pbk. ed.

Table Of Contents:
Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix

Part One Machine Translation: The Early Years 1(36)

Editor's Introduction 3(3)

The Linguistic Basis of a Mechanical Thesaurus 6(14)

Linguistics and Machine Translation 20(17)

Part Two Probabilistic Grammar and the Corpus 37(154)

Editor's Introduction 39(3)

Towards Probabilistic Interpretations 42(21)

Corpus Studies and Probabilistic Grammar 63(13)

Language as System and Language as Instance: The Corpus as a Theoretical Construct 76(17)

[with Z. L. James] A Quantitative Study of Polarity and Primary Tense in the English Finite Clause 93(37)

Quantitative Studies and Probabilities in Grammar 130(27)

The Spoken Language Corpus: A Foundation for Grammatical Theory 157(34)

Part Three Towards `Intelligent Computing' (Computing with Meaning) 191(77)

Editor's Introduction 193(3)

On Language in Relation to Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Computing 196(17)

Fuzzy Grammatics: A Systemic Functional Approach to Fuzziness in Natural Language 213(26)

Computing Meanings: Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects 239(29)
Appendix: Systems of the English Clause: A Trial Grammar for the Penman Text Generation Project [Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California] 268(17)
Bibliography 285(10)
Index 295