Paper 20: Literary and Linguistic Computing for English

Reading List

Some general books are listed below. More specialised reading will be recommended as appropriate. It should be remembered that this is a new subject and much of the literature is in the form of newsletters, articles, web-sites etc. The "Paper 20 Box" in Mrs Anderson's Office contains a selection of articles. Computing manuals and handbooks are also available from Mrs Anderson. Most books will be under Computing in the library.

Journals

Humanist
Literary and Linguistic Computing
Digital Humanities Quarterly
ICAME Journal (corpora)
Computer Assisted Language Learning

General Books

British Library, Information Technology in Humanities Scholarship, British Library Report 6097, 1993 (available at STELLA).
Davidson, Madelaine. A Straightforward Guide to Computing and Information Technology, London: Straightforward, 1994 (available in Smiths)
Dictionary of Computing, Oxford University Press.
Genet, J-P & Zampolli, A., eds. Computers and the Humanities, Aldershot: Dartmouth, 1992
Hirschheim, Smithson & Whitehouse, Microcomputers and the Humanities, Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1990
Hockey, Susan. A Guide to Computer Applications in the Humanities, London: Duckworth, 1980.
Johnson, P. Human Computer Interaction, London, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992.
Katzen, M. Scholarship and Technology in the Humanities, London: Bowker-Saur, 1991.
Kenny, Anthony. Computers & the Humanities, London, British Library, 1992.
What is Humanities Computing? papers from UGA
MA in Humanities Computing at Alberta

History

A brief history of humanities computing, Joe Raben
Selective bibliography for humanities computing from KCL

Artificial Intelligence

Aleksander, I. & Morton, H. An Introduction to Neural Computing, London: Chapman and Hall, 1990.
Boden, M.A. Artificial Intelligence and Natural Man, Menlo Park, Calif. Wokingham: MIT Press, 1987.
Copeland, Jack, Artificial Intelligence, Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.
Garnham, Alan, Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1988.
McTear, M. The Articulate Computer, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987.
Rich, E. and Knight, K. Artificial Intelligence ( 2 ed), New York London: McGraw-Hill, 1991.
Russell, S. & Norvig, P., Artificial Intelligence, Prentice Hall, 1995.
Sharples, M., et al. Computers and Thought, Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT press, 1989.
Smith, George, W. Computers and Human Language, New York Oxford: O.U.P., 1991
Weizenbaum, J., Computer Power and Human Reason, Freeman, 1976.
Winograd, Terry, Language as a Cognitive Process, Reading Mass. London: Addison-Wesley, 1983.

Corpora, Concordances and Text Encoding

Aarts, Jan & Meijs, Willem, eds. Theory & Practice in Corpus Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1990.
Aarts, J, Hann & Oostdijk. English Language Corpora: Design, Analysis and Exploitation, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.
Aijmer, Karin & Altenberg, Bengt, eds. English Corpus Linguistics: Studies in honour of Jan Svartvik,Harlow: Longman, 1991.
Aston, Guy & Burnard, Lou, The BNC Handbook: Exploring the British National Corpus with SARA, EUP, 1998, 0 7486 1055 3 Pbk.
Atkins, B.T.S. & A. Zampolli, Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Barnbrook, Geoff, Language and Computers, A Practical Introduction to the Computer Analysis of Language, Edinburgh: Edinburgh U.P., 1996.
Biber, Douglas, Susan Conrad & Randi Reppen. Corpus Linguistics: Investigating Language Structure and Use, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1998.
Centre for Electronic Texts for the Humanities (CETH). 1996 Plain and Encoded Electronic Texts: a Taxonomy and Guidelines for Evaluation. CETH Workshop Series 1996: Electronic Resources for the Humanities. http://scc01.rutgers.edu/ceth/intromat/E-TEXTS.htm
Kennedy, Graeme. An Introduction to Corpus Linguistics, London: Longman: 1998.
Kytö, Merja, et al. eds. Corpora across the Centuries, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994.
Lancashire, Ian. 1996, Using 'TACT' with Electronic Texts: A Guide to 'Text Analysis Computing Tools' Version 2.1. [GUL Level 4, Computing J70 1996-L].
McEnery, A., & Wilson, A., Corpus Linguistics, Edinburgh: E.U.P., 1996.
Popham, Michael. 1996,  "Text Encoding, Analysis, and Retrieval" in New Technologies for the Humanities. Ed. Christine Mullings, Marilyn Deegan et al. London: Bowker-Saur.
Sinclair, John. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation, Oxford: O.U.P., 1991. (see also Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary)
Sampson, Geoffrey. English for the Computer: The Suzanne Corpus and Analytic Scheme, Oxford: Clarendon, 1995.
Souer C. and Atwell, E. Corpus Based Computational Linguistics, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1993.
Stubbs, Michael. Text and Corpus Analysis, Oxford: Blackwell, 1996.
Svartvik, Jan, ed. Directions in Corpus Linguistics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1992.
Thomas, Jenny & Short, Mick, eds. Using Corpora for Language Research: studies in honour of Geoffrey Leech, Harlow: Longman, 1996.
University Centre for Computer Corpus Research on Language, and the Web Course in Corpus Linguistics, University of Lancaster
CLAWS Parts of Speech Taggerhttp://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/claws/
M.A. Theses completed at the Department of English, University of Oulu, Finland
See also the links to corpora and text archives in the STELLA links.

HTML

Graham, Ian S., The HTML Sourcebook, New York Chichester: Wiley, 1995.
Musciano, C. & Kennedy, B.HTML - The Definitive Guide, Cambridge: O’Reilly and Associates, 1996. (Not in G.U.L.)

Hypertext

Barrett, Edward, The Society of Text, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1989.
Barrett,Edward, Text, Context and Hypertext: Writing with and for the Computer, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1988.
Bolter, Jay David, WRITING SPACE: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing, Hillsdale NJ: Erlbaum, 1991.
Jonassen & Mandl, Designing Hypertext for Learning, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
Landow, George, Hypertext: the Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1992.
Landow, George, Hypertext 2.0, Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1997.
McAleese, Ray, Hypertext - Theory into Practice, Oxford: Intellect Books, 1993.
Nelson, Theodor, Literary Machines 93.1, Sausalito, Mindful Press, 1993.
Nielsen, Jakob, Hypertext and Hypermedia, Cambridge MA: Academic Press Professional, 1990 & 1993.
Nielsen, Jakob, Multimedia and Hypertext: The Internet and Beyond, London: A.P.Professional, 1995.

Clark, Michael, Cultural Treasures of the Internet, Prentice Hall, 1995
Gilster, P., The Mosaic Navigator, New York Chichester: Wiley, 1995.
LaQuey, Tracy, The European Internet Companion, Wokingham: Addison Wesley Pub.Co., 1995.
LaQuey, Tracy, The Internet Campanion, Reading Mass. Wokingham: Addison-Wesley, 1994.

Lexicography & Lexicology

Atkins, B.T.S. & A. Zampolli, Computational Approaches to the Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon, 1994.
Boguraev, Bran & Briscoe, Ted, eds. Computational Lexicography for Natural Language Processing, London: Longman, 1989.
Kytö, Merja, et al. eds. Corpora across the Centuries, Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. (article on Historical Thesaurus database).
Felbaum, C. ed., WordNet: an electronic lexical database, Boston: MIT Press, 1998.
Ooi, Vincent B.Y., Computer Corpus Lexicography, E.U.P., 1998.
Peyawary, Ahmed. A. The core vocabulary of international English: a corpus approach. Bergen: HIT Centre, 1999.
Sinclair, John. Looking up: An Account of the Cobuild Project. London: Collins ELT, 1987.

Linguistics

Butler, C. Statistics in Linguistics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1985.
Butler, C. ed. Computers and Written Texts, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992.
Garside, R., Leech, G. & Sampson, G. The Computational Analysis of English, Harlow: Longman, 1987.
Grishman, R. Computational Linguistics, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1986.
Horrocks, G., Generative Grammar, London: Longman, 1987.
Lyons, John, New Horizons in Linguistics 2, London: Penguin Books, 1987, ch. 10.
Mitton, Roger, English Spelling and the Computer, London & New York: Longman, 1996.
Roach, Peter, ed., Computing in Linguistics and Phonetics, London: Academic Press, 1992.
Partingdon, Alan. Patterns and Meanings: Using Corpora for English Language Research and Teaching, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1998.
Rosner, Michael & Johnson, R., eds. Computational Linguistics and Formal Semantics, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1992.
Saaed, John, Semantics, Oxford: Blackwell, 1997 (see ch. 9 on semantic features).
SparckJones , K. & Wilks, Y. Automatic Natural Language Parsing, Chichester: Ellis Horwood, 1985.
Winograd, T. Language as a Cognitive Process, Vol 1, Syntax, Reading, Mass.London: Addison-Wesley 1983.
Woods, A., Fletcher,P., & Hughes, A. Statistics in Language Studies, Cambridge: C.U.P., 1986.

Literature

Burrows, J.F. Computation into Criticism, Oxford: Clarendon, 1987.
Burrows, J.F. and Craig, H. "Lucy Hutchinson and the authorship of two seventeenth-century poems: a computational approach". The Seventeenth Century, 16 (2001), 259-82.
Chernaik, Warren, M. Deegan & A.Gibson, eds. Beyond the Book: Theory, Culture & the Politics of Cyberspace, Oxford: Office for Humanities Computing., 1996
Delany, P, and Landow, G.P., eds, Hypermedia and Literary Studies, Cambridge, Mass. London: MIT, 1990.
Finneran, Richard J., ed. The Literary Text in the Digital Age, Ann Arbour: University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Gibbons, John, ed. Language and the Law, Harlow, Essex, England, New York: Longman, 1994. See articles by Robert Eagleson on "Forensic Analysis of Personal Written Texts" and Wilfrid Smith, "Computers, Statistics and Disputed Authorship".
Jones, Susan. Text and Context, London: Springer Verlag, 1991.
Kenny, A. The Computation of Style, Oxford: Pergamon, 1982.
Landow, George. Hypertext: the Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology, Baltimore London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
Morton, A.Q., Literary Detection. How to prove authorship and fraud in literature and documents, Epping: Bowker, 1978.
Opas, L.L., & F.J. Tweedie. "The Magic Carpet Ride: Reader Involvement in Romantic Fiction", Literary & Linguistic Computing, 14:1, 1999, 89-101.
Potter, Rosanne, G. Literary Computing and Literary Criticism, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.
Sutherland, Kathryn, ed., Electronic Text: Investigations in Method and Theory, Oxford: Clarendon, 1998.
Turk, C. ed., Humanities Research Using Computers, London: Chapman Hall, 1991

Media

Chernik, Warren, Davis Caroline & Deegan, Marilyn (ed). The Politics of the Electronic Text, Oxford, :Office for Humanities Communication, 1993.
Deegan Marilyn and Tanner Simon, Digital futures : strategies for the information age, London : Library Association, 2002. GUL level 11, A130 2002-D
Gurnsey, John, The Information Professions in the Electronic Age, London: Bingley, 1985
Mastroddi, Franco, ed., Electronic Publishing; the New Way to Communicate, London: Kogan Page, 1987.
Steinke, C.A., ed., Electronic Information Systems in Sci-tech Libraries, London: Haworth Press, 1990.

Translation

Balkan, Arnold, Lee Humphries and Meijer Sadler. Machine Translation: an Introductory Guide, Blackwell, 1993.
Frawley, W., Translation, London: Associated University Press, 1984.
Goshawke, W., I. Kelly & D. Wigg. Computer translation of Natural Language, Wilmslow: Sigma Press, 1984.
Hutchins,W., & H. Somers. An Introduction to Machine Translation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Melby, A., The Possibility of Language, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1995.