Contents -- 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 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 FuzzyGrammatics: 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.