The Computer in the Humanities and Fine Arts
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
The teachable language comprehender: a simulation program and theory of language
Communications of the ACM
Constructible representations for two semantic relations
COLING '73 Proceedings of the 5th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
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The use of the computer in the language-oriented humanities for exhaustive listing of detail (as in indices and concordances) is widespread and accepted as desirable. The implications of the computer for a “science” of the humanities—a science entailing gathering data for the construction and testing of models—are neither widely recognized nor accepted. This paper argues that the computer's major role as to language analysis in the humanities will be the establishing of such a science. Thus, for those areas of the humanities for which rigor and precision are necessary (e.g. analyzing literature or teaching a student to write a composition) the computer can be a critically important facilitator.