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Computational linguistics

Here are entered works on the applications of computers in processing and analyzing language. Works on the computer processing of natural language for the purpose of enabling humans to interact with computers in natural language are entered under Natural language processing (Computer science).

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• Applied linguistics
• Language and languages
• Linguistics

• Mathematical linguistics

• Computational linguistics -- Congresses
• Computational linguistics -- Methodology
• Computational linguistics -- Periodicals
• Lexicography -- Data processing
• Machine translating
• Parsing (Computer grammar)
• Speech processing systems

• Automatic language processing
• Language and languages -- Data processing
• Language data processing
• Linguistics -- Data processing
• Natural language processing (Linguistics)

• Strategic Research Agenda for Multilingual Europe 2020 (presented by META-NET; c2013), ed. by Georg Rehm and Hans Uszkoreit (PDF files with commentary at springer.com)
• Computational Linguistics: Models, Resources, Applications (c2004), by Igor A. Bolshakov and Alexander Gelbukh (PDF and illustrated HTML with commentary at gelbukh.com)
• Prolog and Natural Language Analysis (digital edition, 2002), by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Shieber (PDF with commentary at mtome.com)
• Computing Natural Language, ed. by Atocha Aliseda, Rob J. Van Glabbeek, and Dag Westerståhl (PDF at Stanford)
• Feature Logics, Infinitary Descriptions, and Grammar, by Bill Keller (PDF at Stanford)
• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)
• Computational Models of American Speech, by Mary Margaret Withgott and Francine R. Chen (PDF at Stanford)
• Attribute-Value Logic and the Theory of Grammar, by Mark Johnson (PDF at Stanford)

• Research in Machine Translation (8th Georgetown Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1957), ed. by Léon Dostert (PDF at Georgetown)
• Linguistic Databases, ed. by John A. Nerbonne (PDF at Stanford)

• Research in Machine Translation (8th Georgetown Round Table on Linguistics and Language Studies; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1957), ed. by Léon Dostert (PDF at Georgetown)

• Developing Linguistic Corpora: A Guide to Good Practice (2005), ed. by Martin Wynne (HTML in the UK)

• Computational Linguistics (free online volumes from 2000-) (partial serial archives)

• Five Papers on WordNet (revised 1993), ed. by George A. Miller (PDF at Princeton)
• Making Dictionaries: A Guide to Lexicography and the Multi-Dictionary Formatter (2000 edition, with online updates), by David F. Coward and Charles E. Grimes (PDF with commentary at sil.org)

• Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, by Martin Kay, Jean Mark Gawron, and Peter Norvig (PDF at Stanford)

• Language Teaching, Testing, and Technology: Lessons from the Past with a View Toward the Future (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1989; Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1989), ed. by James E. Alatis (PDF at Georgetown)

• Parsing Techniques: A Practical Guide (first edition, with minor corrections; 1998), by Dick Grune and Ceriel J. H. Jacobs (PDF and Postscript at dickgrune.com)

• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)

• The Dragon NaturallySpeaking Guide: Speech Recognition Made Fast and Simple (second edition, 2000), by Dan Newman (PDF files at sayican.com)
• Voice Communication Between Humans and Machines, ed. by David B. Roe and Jay G. Wilpon (page images at NAP)
• Verbmobil: A Translation System for Face-to-Face Dialog, by Martin Kay, Jean Mark Gawron, and Peter Norvig (PDF at Stanford)

• Transmission Systems for Communications (2 volumes; New York: Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1959), by Bell Telephone Laboratories (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling
  • HTML at chriswaltrip.com
  • Gutenberg text

• Study for Alameda County 911 (ca. 1974), by Scott W. Hovey
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • another edition, without appendix; PDF at ncjrs.gov

• Funding and Implementing Universal Access: Innovation and Experience from Uganda (c2005), by Uganda Communications Commission (PDF with commentary at Fountain Publishers)

• The History of the Telephone, by Herbert Newton Casson
  • illustrated HTML at Virginia
  • Gutenberg text

• Ted and the Telephone (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by William F. Stecher (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Tom Swift and His Photo Telephone: or, The Picture That Saved a Fortune, by Victor Appleton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org

• Government Telephones: The Experience of Manitoba, Canada (c1916), by James Mavor (PDF at McMaster)

• REA Loans and Loan Guarantees for Rural Electric and Telephone Service (1983), by United States Rural Electrification Administration (page images at HathiTrust)

• Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Seann Dikkers, John Martin, and Bob Coulter (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)

• Mobile Media Learning: Amazing Uses of Mobile Devices for Learning (Pittsburgh: ETC Press, c2011), ed. by Seann Dikkers, John Martin, and Bob Coulter (multiple formats with commentary at CMU)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Faces of Science (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny, illust. by Mikhail Zlatkovsky (linked PDF files here at Penn)

• Beyond Grammar: An Experience-Based Theory of Language, by Rens Bod (PDF at Stanford)

• Applied Linguistics and the Preparation of Second Language Teachers: Toward a Rationale (Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics 1982; Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1983), ed. by James E. Alatis, H. H. Stern, and Peter Strevens (PDF at Georgetown)
• Report of the Sixth Annual Round Table Meeting on Linguistics and Language Teaching (Washington: Georgetown University Press, c1955), ed. by Ruth Hirsch (PDF at Georgetown)

• Glottolog (online edition 3.0, 2017), ed. by Harald Hammarström, Robert Forkel, and Martin Haspelmath (HTML at glottolog.org)
• In the Labyrinths of Language: A Mathematician's Journey (Philadelphia: ISI Press, c1981), by V. V. Nalimov, ed. by Robert Garland Colodny (linked PDF files here at Penn)
• The English Language: From Sound to Sense (c2010), by Gerald Patrick Delahunty and James J. Garvey (PDF files with commentary at Colorado State)
• Ethnologue (fifth edition; 1958) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Three Keys to Language (New York: Rinehart and Co., c1952), by Robert M. Estrich and Hans Sperber (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Psycho-Biology of Language: An Introduction to Dynamic Philology (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1935), by George Kingsley Zipf (page images at HathiTrust)
• Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921), by Edward Sapir
  • HTML at Bartleby
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Adamitics, An Essay On First Man's Language; Or, The Easiest Way To Learn Foreign Languages, for The Use of Middle- And Highschools (Budapest: The author, 1914), by Anthony de Velics
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Die Haupttypen des Sprachbaus (in German; Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1910), by Franz Nikolaus Finck (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay Towards a Real Character, and a Philosophical Language (London: Printed for S. Gellibrand and J. Martin, 1668), by John Wilkins (multiple formats at Google)
• An Introduction to the Study of Language (London: G. Bell and Sons; New York: H. Holt and Co., 1914), by Leonard Bloomfield (page images at Google; US access only)
• The Leaning Tower of Babel and Other Affronts from the Underground Grammarian, by Richard Mitchell (HTML at sourcetext.com)
• Less Than Words Can Say, by Richard Mitchell
  • HTML at sourcetext.com
  • multiple formats in Australia
• Marxism and Problems of Linguistics, by Joseph Stalin (HTML at marxists.org)
• Original Letters and Papers of the Late Viscount Strangford Upon Philological and Kindred Subjects (London: Trubner, 1878), by Percy Ellen Frederick William Symthe Strangford, ed. by Emily Anne Beaufort Smythe Strangford (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1878), by Edward B. Tylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Causes and Cure of Armaments and War (London: P. S. King and Co., 1914), by Albert William Alderson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Primitive Culture: Researches into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy, Religion, Language, Art, and Custom (2 volumes; London: John Murray, 1920), by Edward B. Tylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org

More items available under broader and related terms at left.