Contributions to Quantitative Linguistics Proceedings of the First International Conference on Quantitative Linguistics, QUALICO, Trier, 1991

QUALICO has been held for the first time as an international conference to demonstrate the state of the art in quantitative linguistics. This domain of language study and research is gaining considerable interest due to recent advances in linguistic modelling, particularly in computational linguistics, cognitive science, and developments in mathematics like modern systems theory. Progress in hardware and software technology, together with ease of access to data and numerical processing, has provided new means of empirical data acquisition and the application of mathematical models of adequate complexity. This volume contains the papers read at QUALICO 91, and provides a representative overview of the state of the art in quantitative linguistic research.

1 Science and Linguistics.- 2 Menzerath’s Law and the Constant Flow of Linguistic Information.- 3 Text as a Construct of Aggregations.- 4 Synergetic Linguistics.- 5 A Model of the Word Life Cycle.- 6 A Self-Organizing Lexical System in Hypertext.- 7 Repairs in a Connectionist Language-Production Model.- 8 A Methodology for Analyzing Terminological and Conceptual Differences in Language Use across Communities.- 9 Modelling the Distribution of Word Length: Some Methodological Problems.- 10 The Measurement of Morphosyntactic Properties: A First Attempt.- 11 An Algorithm for Automatic Grammatical Classes Definition.- 12 Methodological Aspects of the Categorization of a Middle French Corpus with a Computer-Assisted Text Analysis Software (SATO).- 13 Proposal of a New ‘Constraint Measure’ for Text.- 14 Statistical Language Modelling Using a Cache Memory.- 15 Forming Word Classes by Statistical Clustering for Statistical Language Modelling.- 16 Probabilistic Scaling of Texts.- 17 Quantitative Evaluation of Language Independent Models.- 18 Statistical Experiments on Computer Talk.- 19 Multidimensional Scaling as a Dialectometrical Technique: Outline of a Research Project.- 20 Dialectometry: A Short Overview of the Principles and Practice of Quantitative Classification of Linguistic Atlas Data.- 21 A Statistical Approach for Phoneme-to-Grapheme Conversion.- 22 Synergetic Studies in Polish.- 23 Quantitative Linguistics and Histoire des mentalités: Gender Representation in the Trésor de la langue française, 1600–1950.- 24 About Some Theoretical and Computational Interpretations of Chinese Phrase Structure Grammar (CPSG).- 25 A Parallel Approach in Statistical Analysis of Unrestricted Corpora of Human Language.- 26 Correlational System of Verbal Features in English andGerman.- 27 Verb Patterns in the Polish Vocabulary and Texts.- Notes on Contributors.- Announcement: QUALICO-94.