Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?

eneral, the notion that computation in a serious sense, not just as some highly abstract grounding or, maybe, politically correct meta-reference, has something important to say to linguistics never figures. Does this matter? Specifically, whether it matters to the linguists or not, does it matter to us (computational types)? In a world of proliferating specialist journals and, increasingly, conference proceedings, why worry about the lack of computational reference in mainstream linguistics journals? Being computational is not the only way of being legitimate in any field, but there are plenty of publishing venues for the computational. So it need not be a criticism of a linguistics journal like the one I get that it does not have more on computational linguistics, or natural language processing, or natural language engineering, or human language technology. We may find the lack of computational reference a surprise, but even if there are a lot of non-computational linguists out th...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2007
• Where: COLING
• Authors: Karen Spärck Jones
• Keywords: COLING 2007, COLING 2008, Computational Reference, Linguistics Journals, Mainstream Linguistics Journals