Computational and Quantitative Studies Volume

"This is a deeply impressive book by a prominent linguist. As always, Professor Halliday's contributions are pervasively readable and stimulating." Jan Svartvik, Emeritus Professor, Lund University, Sweden.

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

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