Automating linguistics

Abstract:

The automation of the language sciences started with the first experiments on machine translation undertaken just after the end of World War II in 1948–1949 in the USA and in Great Britain. I will call it “the computational turn”. 1 This turn, which defines how linguists adopted and integrated the concepts and the methods of the computer sciences and mathematics, involves very specific features. It is characterised by the sudden appearance of a set of completely new concepts, methods and practices which did not belong to the “horizon of retrospection” of linguists and the language sciences. As it is affected by temporality, scientific activity refers to its past and its future. It refers to a body of knowledge which has been developed previously (concepts, works, results) and sets itself various projects for the future. Auroux (1987, 2007) names these two types of references “horizon of retrospection” and “horizon of projection …

Año de publicación:

2021

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