Publisher's Synopsis
"Research in Humanities Computing" is a new annual publication, representing the state of the art in humanities computing. Each volume will contain a selection of papers presented at the joint annual conference of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (AHC), based in North America, and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), based in Europe. These are the two major associations for the use of computers in scholarly research and teaching in humanities disciplines such as languages, literature, history, philosophy, archaeology, art, and music.;Each volume will address topics such as concordances, text retrieval, stylistics, statistical applications, content analysis, hypertext, lexicography, computational linguistics, language learning, humanities computing facilities, textual editing, text archives, encoding formats, scholarly publishing, and language learning.;This, the first, volume contains 20 papers from the dynamic Text ACH/ALLC Conference held in Toronto in June 1989.