本书是一部手册性的计算语言学专著，收录了包括语言学家、计算机专家和语言工程人员在内的50位学者撰写的综述性文章，全面地反映了国外计算语言学主要领域的*新成果，是我们了解国外计算语言学发展动向的一个窗口。
全书各章写作风格一致，内容协调，浑然一体，使用有趣的实例来介绍艰深的技术问题，而且尽量不使用繁难的数学公式，尤其适合文科背景的读者阅读。对于那些对计算语言学感兴趣和刚入门的读者而言，本书也是一本**的参考书。

Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
PART I FUNDAMENTALS
1.Phonology
2.Morphology
3.Lexicography
4, Syntax
5.Semantics
6.Discourse
7.Pragmatics and Dialogue
8.Formal Grammars and Languages
9.Complexity
PART II PROCESSES, METHODS, AND RESOURCES
1O.Text Segmentation
11.Part-of-Speech Tagging
12.Parsing
13.Word-Sense Disambiguation
14.Anaphora Resolution
15.Natural Language Generation
16.Speech Recognition
17.Text-to-Speech Synthesis
18.Finite-State Technology
19.Statistical Methods
20.Machine Learning
21.Lexical Knowledge Acquisition
22.Evaluation
23.Sublanguages and Controlled Languages
24.Corpus Linguistics
25.Ontologies
26.Tree-Adjoining Grammars
PART III APPLICATIONS
Notes on Contributors
Glossary
Index of Authors
Subject Index