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Title: Machine-Aided Linguistic Discovery 
Subtitle: An Introduction and Some Examples 
Publication Year: 2010 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	
Author: Vladimir Pericliev

Hardback: ISBN:  9781845536602 Pages: 416 Price: U.K. £ 60 Comment: $90


Abstract:

Solving linguistic problems not infrequently reduces to carrying out tasks that 
are computationally complex and therefore requires automation. In such 
situations, the difference between having and not having computational tools 
to handle the tasks is not a matter of economy of time and effort, but may 
amount to the difference between finding and not finding a solution at all. The 
book is an introduction to machine-aided linguistic discovery, a novel 
research area, arguing for the fruitfulness of the computational approach by 
presenting a basic conceptual apparatus and several intelligent discovery 
programmes. One of the systems models the fundamental Saussurian notion 
of "system", and thus, for the first time, after almost a century after the 
introduction of this concept and structuralism in general, linguists are capable 
to handle adequately this recurring computationally complex task. Another 
system models the problem of searching for Greenbergian language 
universals and is capable of stating its discoveries in an intelligible form, viz. 
a comprehensive English language text, thus constituting the first computer 
program to generate a whole scientific article. Yet another system detects 
potential inconsistencies in genetic language classifications. The 
programmes are applied with noteworthy results to substantial problems from 
diverse linguistic disciplines such as structural semantics, phonology, 
typology and historical linguistics. 



Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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