Overview
- Automation-mathematisation of the language sciences
- Comparative study
- History of natural language processing
- History of machine translation, natural language processing and automatic discourse analysis in France
- Methods by intermediary languages for machine translation
Part of the book series: History of Computing (HC)
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Early machine translation was devised as a war technology originating in the sciences of war, amidst the amalgamate of mathematics, physics, logics, neurosciences, acoustics, and emerging sciences such as cybernetics and information theory. Machine translation was intended to provide mass translations for strategic purposes during the Cold War. Linguistics, in turn, did not belong to the sciences of war, and played a minor role in the pioneering projects of machine translation.
Comparing the two trends, the present book reveals how the sciences of language gradually integrated the technologies of computing and software, resulting in the second-wave mathematisation of the study of language, which may be called mathematisation-automation. The integration took on various shapes contingent upon cultural and linguistic traditions (USA, ex-USSR, Great Britain and France). By contrast, working with large corpora in the 1990s, though enabled by unprecedented development of computing and software, was primarily a continuation of traditional approaches in the sciences of language sciences, such as the study of spoken and written texts, lexicography, and statistical studies of vocabulary.
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Book Title: Automating Linguistics
Authors: Jacqueline Léon
Series Title: History of Computing
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70642-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70641-8Published: 27 April 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70644-9Published: 28 April 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70642-5Published: 26 April 2021
Series ISSN: 2190-6831
Series E-ISSN: 2190-684X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 179
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Computing, Pattern Recognition, Linguistics, general