LANGUAGE: AN OVERVIEW OF A RANGE OF VIEWPOINTS,

Abstract

With the expanding interest by mathematicians and data processing specialists in a field formerly reserved to the social or behavioral scientist, an attempt is made to summarize the variations in approach taken to the study of language by the linguist, the behaviorist, and the statistician. SUMMARY: To communicate optimally with automatic symbol manipulation (or data processing) equipment, it is shown that we must know vastly more about communicating via symbols than we have known. The search for needed knowledge is categorized as (1) logistic -- specification of syntax and semantics of symbols; (2) linguistic -- discovery of syntax from observation of symbol events and inference of semantics; (3) psychologic -- discovery of semantics and pragmatics from analysis of symbol events and syntax. Examination of the directions of study emphasizes the paucity of knowledge of language and range and depth of opportunity that remain in man's study of this tool.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 30, 1964
Accession Number
AD0612945

Entities

People

  • Louise Schultz

Organizations

  • System Development Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Automatic
  • Data Processing
  • Data Processing Equipment
  • Image Processing
  • Information Processing
  • Language
  • Linguistics
  • Observation
  • Processing Equipment
  • Scientists
  • Semantics
  • Specialists
  • Specifications
  • Words (Language)

Readers

  • Computational Linguistics
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Machine Translation