本书是《韩礼德文集》丛书中的第6卷《计算机与定量语言》本书分为三个部分：第一部分收集了韩礼德早期对计算语言学的分支领域——机器翻译的研究成果；第二部分收集了对概率语法和语料库的研究；第三部分探讨针对语言中的模糊现象，如何用计算机处理语言的意义等有关问题。

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE MACHINE TRANSLATION: THE EARLY YEARS

Editor's Introduction

1 The Linguistic Basis of a Mechanical Thesaurus

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: A Foundation for Grammatical Theory

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 Natural Language

11 Computing Meanings: 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]

Bibliography

Index