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Part One: Machine translation: the early years Editor's Introduction 1 The linguistic basis of a mechanical thesaurus, and its application to English preposition classification 2 Linguistics and machine translation Part Two: Probabilistic grammar and the corpus Editor's Introduction 3 Towards probabilistic interpretations 4 Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar 5 Language as system and language as instance: the corpus as a theoretical construct 6 [with Z L James] A quantitative study of polarity and primary tense in the English Finite clause 7 Quantitative studies and probabilities in grammar 8 The spoken language corpus. Part Three: Towards 'intelligent computing' (computing with Meaning) Editor's Introduction 9 On language in relation to fuzzy logic and intelligent computing 10 Fuzzy grammatics: a systemic functional approach to fuzziness in neutral language 11 Computing meaning: some reflections on past experience and present prospects Appendix: Systems of the English clause: a trial grammar for the PENMAN text generation project. [Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California].

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