Language and Computers : A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language

An introduction to the practical problems and benefits of corpus-based language research, this text provides advice on obtaining corpus material, the main analytical tools, and the most important applications of computerized natural language processing. This is one of the three core texts in the series Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical Linguistics. It includes exercises and guidance on programming where appropriate, and offers examples and case studies from real research situations, showing the techniques in action.