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What is Data-Intensive Linguistics?
Introduction
Aims of the book
Recommended reading
Prerequisites
Chapters
The heart of our approach
A first language model
Ambiguity for beginners
Lexical ambiguity
Structural ambiguity
Pragmatic ambiguity
Summary
Exercises
Historical roots of Data-Intensive Linguistics
Why provide a history?
The history
Earliest times
Panini
Public availability of text
The Rosetta stone
Käding
Motivations for the scientfic study of communication
Telegraphy and Telephony
Information Theory
Summary
Key ideas
Key applications
Questions
Chris Brew
8/7/1998