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Computational linguistics

Index of SIL publications on Computational linguistics listed by country.

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General works

• Alsop, John R. 1988. "FIESTA: a tool for Bible translation."
• Alsop, John R. and E. Clay Johnston. 1990. FIESTA: Fast Interactive Editor of Scripture and Text Analysis, a program for translators and linguists (version 4.5).
• Antworth, Evan and J. Randolph Valentine. 1998. "Software for doing field linguistics."
• Antworth, Evan L. 1990. PC-KIMMO: a two-level processor for morphological analysis.
• Antworth, Evan L. 1991. "Introduction to two-level phonology."
• Antworth, Evan L. 1993. "Glossing text with the PC-KIMMO morphological parser."
• Baart, Joan L. G. 1996. "What to do with CECIL? Acoustic phonetics, CECIL, and linguistic field work."
• Barnwell, Katharine. 1992. "The Translator’s Workplace program."
• Barnwell, Katharine. 1998. "Update on the CONNOT project."
• Beale, Stephen. 1991. "A new approach to machine translation: the TU-SIL machine translation system."
• Beale, Stephen. 1994. Dependency-directed text generation.
• Beale, Stephen. 1997. Hunter-gatherer: applying constraint satisfaction, branch-and-bound and solution synthesis to computational semantics.
• Bevan, David. 1993. "Syntactic analysis using Shoebox."
• Bevan, David. 1993. "What can you do with FindPhone?."
• Black, Cheryl A. 1996. "A PC-PATR implementation of GB syntax."
• Black, Cheryl A. 1997. "PC-PATR implementation of GB syntax."  
• Black, H. Andrew and William C. Mann. 1996. "An annotated bibliography on CARLA."
• Black, H. Andrew, editor, and others. 1996. Proceedings of the 1996 general CARLA conference, November 14-15, 1996.
• Black, H. Andrew. 1996. "TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology."
• Black, H. Andrew. 1997. "TonePars: a computational tool for exploring autosegmental tonology."  
• Black, H. Andrew. 2000. Review of: Extended finite state models of language, András Kornai, editor.
• Black, H. Andrew. 2007. "TonePars: A Computational Tool for Exploring Autosegmental Tonology."  
• Boyd, Ginger. 1990. "Using SHOEBOX in a linguistic field methods course."
• Buseman, Alan. 1991. Tutorial for dialect adaptation with Ample and Stamp: Computer Assisted Dialect adaptation using the Ample and Stamp programs.
• Buseman, Alan. 1995. Review of: Computational linguistics and formal semantics, Michael Rosner and Roderick Johnson, editors.
• Buseman, Alan. 1996. Review of: Everything that linguists have always wanted to know about logic* *but were ashamed to ask, by James D. McCawley.
• Cahill, Michael. 1992. "A few practical tips for using CECIL."
• Coombs, James H., Allen H. Renear, and Steven J. DeRose. 1987. "Markup systems and the future of scholarly text processing."
• Cope, Beverley I. 1993. ChASM: a computer program for assisting linguists in grammatical analysis.  
• Costin, Graeme and Jenni Beadle. 1995. Text analysis with the TA programs version 2.1 and ANSM version 1.1: The new answer menu interface.
• DeRose, Steven J. 1988. "Grammatical category disambiguation by statistical optimization."
• DeRose, Steven J. and Selmer Bringsjord. 1985. "Are computers alive?."
• Edmondson, Jerold A. 1996. "WinCECIL."
• French, Robert A. 1984. SIL software catalog.
• Green, Ivor. 1990. Tutorial for the speech analysis programs CECIL and SPECTRUM.
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1965. "La computadora en las investigaciones humanísticas."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1965. "Linguistic and anthropological projects using the computer."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1965. "The translator as a black box."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1965. Review of: Concordances from computers, by Sydney M. Lamb and Laura Gould.
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1966. "Linguistic information retrieval system for aboriginal languages (Concordance Project)."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1968. Review of: Introduction to computational linguistics, by David G. Hays.
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1970. "Computing in lexicography."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1970. "Scheduling to reduce conflict in meetings."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1971. Review of: Exercises in computational linguistics, by H. Brandt Corstius.
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1975. "Notes on LISP."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1977. "Information processing from the field."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1977. "Information processing technology: on and off the field."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1979. "La computación en lingüística, ¿Deshumanización o liberación del espíritu investigador?."
• Grimes, Joseph E. 1980. "System support in Chinese data entry."
• Grimes, Joseph E. and others. 1979. Microcomputer design for field linguistics.
• Grimes, Joseph E., James W. Sweeney, Robert W. Shields, and Larry F. Core. 1968. Linguistic concordance system manual.
• Grimes, Joseph E., John R. Alsop, and Alan C. Wares. 1968. "Computer backup for field work in phonology."
• Hollenbach, Barbara E. 1994. Review of: Textos y contextos: Estudios antropológico-lingüístico-literarios, primera y segunda entrega, Juan A. Vázquez, editor.
• Hooley, Bruce. 1988. Review of: Bits, bytes and biblical studies: a resource guide for the use of computers in biblical and classical studies, by John J. Hughes.
• Howell, Ramond, Stephen R. McConnel, and Gary F. Simons. 1982. "PTP: a text processing language for personal computers."
• Hunt, Geoffrey R. 1990. "Computer training at SIL schools."
• Hunt, Geoffrey R. 1990. Interpreting CECIL.
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 1992. "A good phonology program."
• Hunt, Geoffrey. 1993. "And where now, CECIL?."
• Jang, Taeho. 1995. Computer-assisted adaptation of text from Turkish to Korean: Design and implementation.
• Johnston, E. Clay. 1995. "FIESTA—a linguistics text tool."
• Kelso, Richard. 1990. Getting started with CECIL.
• Kew, Jonathan and Stephen R. McConnel. 1990. Formatting interlinear text.
• Kew, Priscilla M. and Gary F. Simons, editors. 1989. Laptop publishing for the field linguist: An approach based on Microsoft Word.
• Lamb, Sydney M. 1978. "Recognition memory (REM)."
• Langendoen, D. Terence and Gary F. Simons. 1995. "A rationale for the TEI recommendations for feature-structure markup."  
• Lastufka, Michael. 2000. Review of: Computing natural language, Atocha Aliseda, Rob van Glabbeek and Dag Westerstahl, editors.
• Loos, Eugene E. and Dan Tutton. 1990. "Using FIESTA to find the context for words in a list."
• Lytje, Inger. 1996. "Computer modelling of text comprehension."
• Malone, Terry. 2000. Review of: a grammar writer’s cookbook, by Miriam Butt and others.
• Mann, William C. 1995. "Cross-language text adaptation: Understanding language differences and their consequences."
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1994. "Parsing using linearly ordered phonological rules."
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1996. "Two theories of morphology, one implementation."
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1996. Review of: Challenges in natural language processing, by Madeleine Bates and Ralph M. Weischedel.
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1997. Review of: Computational phonology: a constraint-based approach, by Steven Bird.
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1997. Review of: Language computations, Eric Sven Ristad, editor.
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1998. "Two theories of morphology, one implementation."  
• Maxwell, Michael B. 1999. "A new program for doing morphology: Hermit crab."
• Maxwell, Michael. 2000. Review of: a grammar writer’s cookbook, by ButtMiriam Butt and others.
• Maxwell, Mike. 2000. Review of: Survey of the state of the art in human language technology, by.
• Maxwell, Mike. 2001. Review of: Foundations of statistical natural language processing, by Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze.
• Maxwell, Mike. 2001. Review of: Handbook of natural language processing, Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl and Harold Somers, editors.
• McConnel, Stephen R. 1985. A guide to using KERMIT: Transferring files between computers.
• McConnel, Stephen R. and Gary F. Simons. 1979. The PTP programmer’s toolbox.
• Moe, Ronald. 1990. "Introducing ‘Align’, a new program for charting texts."
• Pickett, Velma B. 1993. "Shoeboxes and typewriters or computers?."
• Radloff, Carla F. 1997. "LinguaLinks linguistic workshop field-test."
• Reitz, Allan. 1989. "Setting up a user-defined keyboard: Keyswap and keydef."
• Reitz, Beth. 1989. "Interfacing with other formatters: Word-SF and SF-Word."
• Schmidt, Ron and Joseph E. Grimes. 1974. Concordance manual.
• Simons, Gary F. 1977. A user’s manual for PTP—the programmable text processor.
• Simons, Gary F. 1979. An implementation guide for the 8080 version of PTP.
• Simons, Gary F. 1980. "The impact of on-site computing on field linguistics: The power of man and machine in interaction."
• Simons, Gary F. 1982. Review of: Byte, special issue on artificial intelligence, v. 6, no.9, 1981.
• Simons, Gary F. 1984. "Data abstraction: a basic implementation for problem solving."
• Simons, Gary F. 1984. Powerful ideas for text processing: An introduction to computer programming with the PTP language.
• Simons, Gary F. 1984. Word list analysis in the field with a notebook computer.
• Simons, Gary F. 1985. A programmer’s guide to the MANUSCRIPTER (PTP version).
• Simons, Gary F. 1986. "Building a morphological analyzer: Part 1."
• Simons, Gary F. 1986. "Signing and sorting, part 1: Putting a list into order."
• Simons, Gary F. 1986. "Signing and sorting, part 2: Organizing a list into groups."
• Simons, Gary F. 1987. "Automation in academic publishing."
• Simons, Gary F. 1987. "Building a morphological analyzer, part 2."
• Simons, Gary F. 1987. "Multidimensional text glossing and annotation."
• Simons, Gary F. 1988. "Computing in linguistics: Studying morphophonemic alternation in annotated text: part one."
• Simons, Gary F. 1989. "A generic style sheet for academic publishing."
• Simons, Gary F. 1989. "A tool for exploring morphology."
• Simons, Gary F. 1989. "The computational complexity of writing systems."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1989. "Working with special characters."
• Simons, Gary F. 1991. "Computing in linguistics: a two-level processor for morphological analysis."
• Simons, Gary F. 1996. "Implementing the TEI's feature-structure markup by direct mapping to the objects and attributes of an object-oriented database system."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1996. "The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research."
• Simons, Gary F. 1997. "Conceptual modeling versus visual modeling: a technological key to building consensus."
• Simons, Gary F. 1997. "PTEXT: a format for the interchange of parsed texts among natural language processing applications."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1998. "In search of task-centered software: Building single-purpose tools from multipurpose components."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1998. "The nature of linguistic data and the requirements of a computing environment for linguistic research."
• Simons, Gary F. 1998. "Using architectural processing to derive small, problem-specific XML applications from large, widely-used SGML applications."  
• Simons, Gary F. 1999. "Using architectural forms to map TEI data into an object-oriented database."
• Simons, Gary F. 2007. Doing linguistics in the 21st century: interoperation and the quest for the global riches of knowledge.  
• Simons, Gary F. and John V. Thomson. 1988. How to use IT: Interlinear text processing on the Macintosh.
• Simons, Gary F. and John V. Thomson. 1998. "Multilingual data processing in the CELLAR environment."
• Simons, Gary F. and Larry Versaw. 1987. How to use IT: a guide to interlinear text processing.
• Simons, Gary F. and R. Craig Woods. 1979. PTP programmer’s reference manual.
• Simons, Gary F. and R. Craig Woods. 1984. A user’s guide to the MANUSCRIPTER (PTP version).
• Simons, Gary F. and Ramond Howell. 1979. The sequential operating system.
• Simons, Linda. 1979. Manuscripter tester.
• Stanford, Ronald. 1993. "The evaluation of potential CADA source texts."
• Strangfeld, Richard A. 1988. The RAP programming language.
• Strube, Arnd. 1992. "Project ’95 NOW? a vision."
• Tehan, Thomas M. 1993. Review of: Prolog and natural-language analysis, by Fernando C. N. Pereira and Stuart M. Schieber.
• Weber, David J. 1992. "With only six letters."
• Weber, David J., Stephen R. McConnel, H. Andrew Black, and Alan Buseman. 1990. STAMP: a tool for dialect adaptation.
• Weeks, Rollin V. 1987. "SLIP: Um sistema para programar gramáticas."
• Wilderman, James L. 1989. "Characters for publication quality output."
• Winther-Nielsen, Nicolai. 1994. "The miraculous grammar of Joshua 3-4: Computer-aided analysis of the rhetorical and syntactic structure."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Benin

• Karan, Mark E. 1983. An experiment in computer assisted literature adaptation.

Cameroon

• Baer, Phillip G. 1984. "Computer technology and Cameroonian languages."
• Bird, Steven. 1999. "Multidimensional exploration of online linguistic field data."
• Grimes, Joseph E., editor. 1975. Network grammars.
• Spreda, Klaus W. 1982. Computer-assisted compilation of a bilingual dictionary: a sample from Metta-English.

Côte d’Ivoire

• Gruber, Eugene Lee. 1986. Design specification for the primer checking program (PCP) (An automated method of checking reading primers).

Ethiopia

• Gardner, Simon. 1994. "A problem in boundary morphophonemics for computer analysis."

Ghana

• Grimes, Joseph E., editor. 1975. Network grammars.

Nigeria

• McKinney, Norris P. 1981. Review of: Structured analysis and system specification, by Tom DeMarco.

Sudan

• Duerksen, John L. 1996. "Two methods of modeling morphological fusion."

Togo

• Karan, Mark E. 1983. An experiment in computer assisted literature adaptation.
• Karan, Mark E. and Thomas W. Marmor. 1985. "An experiment in computer-assisted dialect adaptation."

Americas

Brazil

• Lowe, Ivan. 1979. "Os trabalhos de lingüística computacional do Summer Institute of Linguistics."
• Lowe, Ivan. 1987. "Considerações algébricas sobre o problema de referência pronominal."
• Shelden, Howard. 1982. "Comments on a phonetic orthography for computers."

Chile

• Harmelink, Bryan L. 1990. "Primer formatting with Microsoft Word."
• Harmelink, Bryan L. 1990. "Using tables in Microsoft Word."
• White, Steven. 1989. "A computer method for charting discourse structure."

Colombia

• Buseman, Karen, Cindy Williams, and Larry Williams. 1989. "Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta language project: Workshop in automated parsing."
• Reed, Robert B. 1986. Computer assisted dialect adaptation: The Tucanoan experiment.
• Reed, Robert B. 1987. The implementation of a system for computer assisted dialect adaptation.

Mexico

• Benton, Joseph P., H. Andrew Black and Barbara Glaser. 1996. "Modeling Chichicapan Zapotec morphology."
• Benton, Joseph P., H. Andrew Black and Barbara Glaser. 1997. "Modeling Chichicapan Zapotec morphology."  
• Black, H. Andrew. 2006. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.  
• Goller, Theodore R. 1985. "The use of computers in Bible translation."
• Grimes, Joseph E., editor. 1975. Network grammars.
• Merrifield, William R. and Alfred E. Anderson. 1995. "Issues in Chinantec bilingual lexicography."
• Regnier, Randy. 1996. "Isthmus Zapotec to Quiegolani Zapotec: a New Testament computer adaptation project, and an AMPLE source disambiguation tool needed to do the adaptation."
• Willett, Thomas. 1991. "Report on CADA workshop."

Peru

• Bean, Mark. 1991. "Use of Computer Assisted Dialect Adaptation (CADA) with a multi-dialect translation committee."
• Black, H. Andrew, David J. Weber, Fred Kuhl, and Kathy Kuhl. 1987. Document preparation aids for non-major languages.
• Black, H. Andrew. 2006. Constraint-ranked derivation: a serial approach to optimization.  
• Harmelink, Bryan L. 1985. EZTEXT: Integrated tools for text analysis.
• Kasper, Robert and David J. Weber. 1986. Programmer’s reference manual for the C Quechua adaptation program.
• Kasper, Robert and David J. Weber. 1986. User’s reference manual for the C Quechua adaptation program.
• Payne, David and Judith Payne. 1992. "The use of Ample in the Asheninca translation project."
• Weber, David J. 1982. "Software tools and PTP."
• Weber, David J. 1989. "A morphological parser for linguistic exploration."
• Weber, David J. 1989. "Computing in linguistics: Lex, yacc and Quechua numeral phrases."
• Weber, David J. 1990. "An appeal for examples to guide CADA development."
• Weber, David J. 1996. "Tightening the linguistic belt: Some comments on using AMPLE for linguistic discovery and spelling control."
• Weber, David J. and William C. Mann. 1979. Prospects for computer-assisted dialect adaption.
• Weber, David J. and William C. Mann. 1980. "Assessing the prospects for computer-assisted dialect adaptation in a particular language."

United States

• Frantz, Donald G. 1970. "A PL/1 program to assist the comparative linguist."
• Kehler, T. P. and Donald A. Burquest. 1977. "Now the computer can learn Choctaw grammar."
• Poldervaart, Arie. 1989. "Use of a computer in proofreading Scripture."

Asia

China

• Grimes, Joseph E. 1983. "Graphemic theory and Chinese data entry."

India

• Andres, Susie and S. Ramani. 1970. "The codification of Devanagari script for automatic data-processing."
• Andres, Susie and S. Ramani. 1970. A note on programming a character generator for the Devanagari script.

Indonesia

• Eastwood, Michael. 1989. Pedoman penggunaan komputer.
• Friberg, Timothy and Barbara Friberg. 1981. "A computer-assisted analysis of the Greek New Testament text."
• Kew, Priscilla M. and Gary F. Simons. 1989. "Editing and design."
• Mettler, Heidi. 1990. Pedoman penggunaan program teks ‘Editor 3.3’ untuk komputer.
• Wimbish, John S. 1989. WORDSURV: a program for analyzing language survey word lists.
• Wimbish, John S. 1990. SHOEBOX: a data management program for the field linguist (version 1.2).

Korea, South

• Thrasher, Stephen. 1977. "The microcomputer: a new tool for the field linguist."

Malaysia

• Boutin, Michael E. and William Howery. 1991. "A computational analysis of stop transitions in Bonggi prestopped nasals."
• Kroeger, Paul R. 1981. "A phonetic orthography for computer applications."

Viet Nam

• Cobbey, Maxwell E. 1981. A mechanical method for discovering lexical equivalents between any two languages based on input of equivalent texts.  
• Friberg, Barbara. 1978. Implementation of an augmented transition network for the Cham language.

Pacific

Australia

• Hooley, Bruce A. 1990. "AUTOMAXX-Valuemaxx."

Papua New Guinea

• Cooper, Russell E. 1996. "Can a ‘top-down’ CARLA emulate HARLA? Some discourse level considerations for our next generation of parsers."

Solomon Islands

• Simons, Gary F. 1977. A package of computer programs for the analysis of language survey lists.