Linguistics from a Computational Perspective─ Review of Computational Linguistics and Beyond

Since the advent of the computer in 1945, computational research has by now become pervasive in just about all newly created as well as traditional fields. Nor has linguistics escaped this tidal surge. In fact, a pre-computer computational perspective had already been attempted when linguists examined their data utilizing scientific methods; computational linguistics was formalized after the emergence of computer science, which then catalyzed the development of the whole field of linguistics. The book under consideration here, Computational Linguistics and Beyond, edited by Chu-Ren Huang and Winfried Lenders as Series B in Language and Linguistics Monographs, collects and discusses some recent contributions in computational linguistics, shedding light on the many aspects of this field.