The papers in this volume were submitted for publication before being delivered at the ninth biennial conference on National Language Processing, held in Berlin in 2008. They cover the wide range of possible uses of computational lexicography, corpus linguistics and text technology. The first section discusses linguistic analysis of text resources. This is an area that has revolutionized textual studies. But there are still problems for scholars and these papers provide possible programming solutions. The second section is on retrieving information, in information searches, on-line tutorials and dictionaries. The German influence in the conference is reflected in compound word studies, but all the papers are applicable to most languages. The final section describes programs for specialized dictionaries, including one that translates football terms in many languages, essential to the world-wide mania. The papers are highly technical and will be of interest to those who devise systems that will be invaluable to the next generation of students and researchers. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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