Computational and Quantitative Studies

Professor Jonathan J. Webster is Head of the Department of Chinese, Translation and Linguistics at the City University of Hong Kong. He is also the Managing Editor of the International Linguistics Association’s journal WORD, and the editor of the forthcoming Journal of World Languages (2014). M.A.K. Halliday was Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney.

• Part I - Machine translation: the early years, Editor's Introduction1 The linguistic basis of a mechanical thesaurus, and its application to English preposition classification2 Linguistics and machine translationPart II - Probabilistic grammar and the corpus, Editor's Introduction3 Towards probabilistic interpretations 4 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar5 Language as system and language as instance: the corpus as a theoretical construct6 [with Z L James] A quantitative study of polarity and primary tense in the English Finite clause7 Quantitative studies and probabilities in grammar8 The spoken language corpus Part III - Towards "intelligent computing" (computing with Meaning), Editor's Introduction 9 On language in relation to fuzzy logic and intelligent computing10 Fuzzy grammatics: a systemic functional approach to fuzziness in neutral language11 Computing meaning: some reflections on past experience and present prospectsAppendix: Systems of the English clause: a trial grammar for the PENMAN text generation project. [Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California]

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