Open Access(Xx*-)Linguistics: Because We Love Language
Author(s) -
Tracy Holloway King
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
linguistic issues in language technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1945-3590
pISSN - 1945-3604
DOI - 10.33011/lilt.v6i.1253
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , linguistics , wish , field (mathematics) , domain (mathematical analysis) , forcing (mathematics) , computational linguistics , computer science , sociology , cognitive science , epistemology , psychology , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , mathematical analysis , anthropology , pure mathematics
Overall, although there is not the intense overlap between theoretical and computational linguistics that many seem to wish, I do not see this as a problem from a practical perspective. Everyone is working towards a common goal to understand language and to unearth its structure. By approaching the problem from different angles and with different immediate goals, we gain a broader perspective on the problem, and language is complex enough to need this broad perspective. As with all fields and as with the (Xx*-)linguistic fields, there are some researchers who more naturally reach outside their immediate domain and who will see where there are convergences and contradictions. Forcing everyone into this role would slow the growth of the field as a whole given the vast amount of work still before us.