Linguistics in a computational world
Daniel S. Jurafsky · Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) · 1998
Linguists are talking about computers.What's up with that?What role do computers and computation play in linguistics in 1999?How are we currently using computational tools in linguistic research and in the linguistic curriculum?What about the job market for our students?I'd like to use this paper (a very faithful summary of a talk given at the Symposium The Linguistic Sciences in a Changing Con- text at the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study) to take a very brief glance at what's going on, computationally speaking, in the linguistic world.I'll begin with some high-level thoughts about the role of computation in linguistic research, past and present, turn to the job market, and then discuss computation in the classroom, both for general linguistics and for computational and corpus linguistics.I'll use examples from my experience at Boulder, and so the topics will be biased toward my own areas; the reader should of course fill in their