Publications Received

Publications Received

Books listed below that are marked with a f have been selected for review in a future issue, and reviewers have been assigned to each. Authors and publishers who wish their publications to be considered for review in Computational Linguistics should send a copy to the book review editor, Graeme Hirst, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada M5S 3G4. All books received will be listed, but not all can be reviewed. Technical reports (other than dissertations) will not be listed or reviewed. Authors should be aware that some publishers will not send books for review (even when instructed to do so); authors wishing to enquire as to whether their book has been received for review may contact the book review editor. Readers who wish to be considered as book reviewers for the journal should contact the book review editor, outlining their qualifications, by sending electronic mail to gh@cs.toronto.edu or writing to the address above. fDimensions of Register Variation: A Cross-Linguistic Comparison Douglas Biber (Northern Arizona University) Cambridge University Press, 1995, xvii+428 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-521-47331-4, £37.50

Branimir Boguraev and James Pustejovsky (editors)

(Apple Computer and Brandeis University) Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press (Language, speech, and communication series), 1996, xvii+245 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-262-02392-X, $32.50

Manuel Carreiras, José E. Garcfe-Albea, and Nüria Sebastiân-Gallés (editors) (Universidad de La Laguna, Universität Rovira i Virgili, and Universität de Barcelona)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, xviii+365 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-8058-1721-2, $59.95 ($32.50 prepaid)

Michael A. Covington, Donald Nute, and André Vellino (University of Georgia, University of Georgia, and Nortel Technologies) Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1997, x+516 pp; paperbound, ISBN 0-13-138645-X, no price listed

Kees van Deemter and Stanley Peters (editors) (Institute for Perception Research and Stanford University) Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI Lecture Notes 55), distributed by Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxiii+272 pp; hardbound, ISBN 1-57586-029-5, no price listed; paperbound, ISBN 1-57586-028-7, $24.95 The Robot's Dilemma Revisited: The Frame Problem in Artificial Intelligence

Kenneth M. Ford and Zenon W. Pylyshyn (editors) (Rutgers University and University of West Florida) Computers as Assistants: A New Generation of Support Systems

Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing Corporation, 1996, xviii+141 pp; hardbound, ISBN 1-56750-142-7; paperbound, ISBN 1-56750-143-5, no price listedPeter Hoschka (editor) (GMD, Sankt Augustin) Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Computers, cognition, and work series, edited by Gary M. Olson, Judith S. Olson, and Bill Curtis), 1996, vii+313 pp; paperbound, ISBN 0-8058-2188-0, $29.95; hardbound, ISBN 0-8058-2187-2, $59.95

Makoto Kanazawa, Christopher J. Pinon, and Henriette de Swart (editors) (Chiba University; Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin; and Stanford University) Stanford, CA: Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI Lecture Notes 57), distributed by Cambridge University Press, 1996, x+197 pp; hardbound, ISBN 1-57586-005-8, $49.95; paperbound, ISBN 1-57586-004-X, $22.95 Semantics and Pragmatics of Natural Language: Logical and Computational Aspects [Proceedings of the Donostia-Toulouse 1993 Workshop] Kepa Korta and Jesus M. Larrazabal (editors) (University of the Basque Country)

San Sebastiän: Institute for Logic, Cognition, and Language, University of the Basque ilredito@sk.ehu.es)

Country, 1995, 248 pp; paperbound, ISBN84-920104-3-6, 2100 ptas (order from

The Science of Writing: Theories, Methods, Individual Differences, and Applications

C. Michael Levy and Sarah Ransdell (editors) (University of Florida and Florida Atlantic University)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1996, x+423 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-8058-2108-2, no price listed; paperbound ISBN 0-8058-2109-0, no price listed

Sociolinguistics and Language History: Studies Based on the Corpus of Early English Correspondence

Terttu Nevalainen and Helena Raumolin-Brunberg (editors) Amsterdam: Rodopi (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs, volume 15), 1996, v+213 pp; paperbound, ISBN 90-5183-974-X, $20.00, Dfl 30.00

Synchronic Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the Sixteenth International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 16) Carol E. Percy, Charles F. Meyer, and Ian Lancashire (editors) (University of Toronto) Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 1996, (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, edited by Jan Aarts and Willem Meijs, volume 16), vii+289 pp; hardbound, ISBN 90-420-0019-8, no price listed; paperbound, ISBN 90-420-0027-9, Dfl 45.00, $30.00

Phonetic Symbol Guide (Second Edition)

Geoffrey K. Pullum and William A. Ladusaw

(University of California, Santa Cruz) Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996, xxxvii+320 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-226-68535-7, $75.00, £59.95; paperbound, ISBN 0-226-68536-5, $19.95, £15.95

Second Language Classroom Research: Issues and Opportunities

Jacquelyn Schachter and Susan Gass (editors) (University of Oregon and Michigan State University)

Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Second language research: Theoretical and methodological issues, edited by Jacquelyn Schachter and Susan Gass), v+187 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-8058-1935-5, $45.00; paperbound ISBN 0-8058-1936-3, $19.95

The New Writing Environment: Writers at Work in a World of Technology

Mike Sharpies and Thea van der Geest (editors) (University of Sussex and University of Twente) fConnectionist, Statistical, and Symbolic Approaches to Learning for Natural Language Processing

London: Springer-Verlag, 1996, x+274 pp; paperbound, ISBN 3-540-76011-3, £40.00

Stefan Wermter, Ellen Riloff, and Gabriele Scheler (editors) (University of Hamburg; University of Utah; and Technical University of Munich) Berlin: Springer (Lecture notes in artificial intelligence 1040), 1996, ix+468 pp; paperbound, ISBN 3-540-60925-3, no price listed

Dissertations Received

Reference to Objects: An Empirically Based Study of Task-Oriented Dialogues

Anita Helena Maria Cremers

Technical University of Eindhoven, June

1996

Concise Natural Language Generation from Formal Specifications

Hercules Dalianis

Department of Computer and Systems Sciences, Royal Institute of Technology and University of Stockholm, April 1996

A Logical Approach to Computational Corpus Linguistics

Torbjörn Lager

Department of Linguistics, University of

Göteborg, December 1995 (Gothenburg monographs in linguistics 14)

Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation in Multilingual Sentence Generation

Manfred Stede

Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto, May 1996.

The Word Connection: Grammar-based Spelling Error Correction in Dutch

Theo G. Vosse

University of Leiden, November 1994