ACTUAL LINGUISTICS PROBLEMS

Linguistics and Linking Problems

I am not an expert on language disorders. As a relative outsider at the meeting that this volume is based upon, I was impressed by two general conclusions. First, I was impressed by the extreme specificity that is now possible in the descriptions of both genotypes and phenotypes for a number of different developmental disorders that affect language. Second, I was impressed by the gulf that lies...

Problems in-Computerized Historical Linguistics: the Old Cornish Lexicon

This work represents an attempt to utilize the computer in solving problems in historical linguistics. The corpus upon which it operates is not a language but a recently published etymological dictionary of Old Cornish. 1 Any observations regarding the scarcity or inaccuracy of the data utilized are, therefore, irrelevant, as far as the present paper is concerned. As the dictionary in question ...

Romani genetic linguistics and genetics: Results, prospects and problems

A virtual discussion board: problems of computational linguistics

In this paper, the main aim is that of presenting a valid solution to a problem of computational linguistics through the presentation of a real case-study. Surveying different existing measures and techniques of semantic similarity it is proposed a valid solution to determine the degree of semantic similarity and, consequently, the relatedness of two concepts.

Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?

But this journal content is of interest here for another reason than these scholarly ones. First, references to computing are conspicuous by their absence. Just occasionally, grammar types or semantic models appear that have computational connections, for example in a shared view of feature sets; and there are references to computational corpus analysis, though more often in reviews than in maj...