Describes the development and application of an algorithm that generates non-linear representations of English text. It appears that the representation it produces could be quite useful in automatic language processing. (JB)

Information based on courses and seminars held at the Second International Summer School on the elaboration of linguistic and literary fundamentals, Pisa, Italy, September 1972; paper presented at the Second International Conference on Linguistics and Translation, October 4-7, 1972, Montreal, Canada. (DD)

The skeleton for a universal language for information retrieval is proposed. (NH)

The EYEBALL information system is designed for students of literature, with special applications to literary style, criticism, and the history of ideas. (Authors)

Computational linguistics, as linguistics in general, is the study of human behavior. (MF)

Provides a bibliography of articles and book reviews on machine translation, computational linguistics and information storage and retrieval. All items listed were published in "Babel" during the years: 1956, 1957, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979. (MES)

While computers have a definite role to play, current language research involving artificial intelligence is headed in a wrong direction and is unlikely to contribute to a scientific theory of language. (Author/MV)

Makes a case for including corpus linguistics in initial language teacher education to enhance teachers' research skills and language awareness. Offers examples of corpus-based tasks for increasing students' understanding of word classes, register-related grammatical choices, and socioculturally conditioned grammatical choices. (Author/VWL)

Describes LEARN, a software system for computer assisted foreign language vocabulary acquisition. Notes that the system processes English unrestricted text by translating selected English words in it into foreign words before presenting the text to the student. Points out that the natural path for the system's future is to add more languages. (23…

Describes experiments that compared a new method for automatically analyzing semantic structures in text by statistical means with the standard vector space model. Findings indicate that combining both methods improved performance over either alone. The effects of other experimental variables on retrieval performance (term weighting, suffix…

Describes the use of a highly parallel array processor for pattern matching operations in a bibliographic retrieval system. The discussion covers the hardware and software features of the processor, the pattern matching algorithm used, and the results of experimental tests of the system. (37 references) (Author/CLB)

This article explored the way people and connectionist models could apply knowledge of the structure of one domain to another. The process of the Simple Recurrent Network in modelling these data illustrates how abstract knowledge of artificial grammars can be understood in terms of statistical structure. (nine references) (CK)

Presents an approach to summarization that combines information from multiple facts into a single sentence using linguistic constructions. Describes two applications: one produces summaries of basketball games, and the other contains summaries of telephone network planning activity. Both summarize input data as opposed to full text. Discusses…