語言學中的計算觀點──評《計算語言學和其他》

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

繼1945年計算機出現後，計算化研究方法席捲了各個新興和傳統的研究領域。曾被認為是傳統學科之一的語言學也沒有“倖免＂。實際上，早在語言學家蒐集數據並對其進行比較分析時，計算方法就已經被使用了。計算語言學在計算機科學出現後得以規範化並推動了整個語言學的發展。本文將評價由黃居仁和蘭德斯編寫的語言和語言學專論之一的《計算語言學和其他》一書。該書系統介紹了計算語言學的研究現狀，並指明了其未來發展的方向。

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.