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Automatic Language Processing and Computational Linguistics
Pages 29-31

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... Other moneys have been allocated to information retrieval, library automation, and programmed instruction. Although techniques of machine construction and programming for time-shared operation have been developed with partial support from the government, the computer industry has spent its own resources in machine development, and expenditures in connection with automatic language processing have played a distinctly minor role in advances in computer hardware.
From page 30...
... There are also empirical linguists who are not excited by the theoretical advances of the decade—or by computers. But more linguists than ever before are attempting to bring subtler theories into confrontation with richer bodies of data, and virtually all of them, in every country, are eager for computational support.
From page 31...
... Therefore, among the important kinds of research that need to be done and should be supported are (1) basic developmental research in computer methods for handling language, as tools for the linguistic scientist to use as a help to discover and state his generalizations, and as tools to help check proposed generalizations against data; and (2)


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