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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 that are relevant to computational linguistics and natural language processing will be listed, but not all can be reviewed. Technical reports (other than dissertations) and conference and workshop proceedings (other than those distributed by a major publisher) 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.
Affective Computing and Sentiment Analysis: Emotion, Metaphor, and Terminology
Khurshid Ahmad (editor)
(Trinity College Dublin)
Berlin: Springer (Text, speech and language technology series, edited by Nancy Ide, volume 45), 2011, xiv+148 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-94-007-1756-5, $139; e-book, ISBN 978-94-007-1757-2, $109.99
Biblical Hebrew Grammar Visualized
Francis I. Andersen1 and A. Dean Forbes2
(1University of Melbourne and 2Palo Alto)
Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns (Linguistic Studies in Ancient West Semitic, volume 6), 2012, xvi+394 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-1-57506-229-7, $64.50
Introduction to Pragmatics
Betty J. Birner
(Northern Illinois University)
London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, xiii+326 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-7583-8, $44.95; hardbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-7582-1, $99.95; e-book, ISBN 978-1-1183-4830-7, $35.99
Native Listening: Language Experience and the Recognition of Spoken Words
Anne Cutler
(Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012, xvii+555 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-0-262-01756-5, $50.00, £35.95
†Language and Computers
Markus Dickinson1, Chris Brew2, and Detmar Meurers3
(1Indiana University, 2Educational Testing Service, and 3University of Tübingen)
London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, xviii+232 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-8305-5, $34.95; hardbound, ISBN 978-1-4051-8306-2, $87.95; e-book, ISBN 978-1-1183-2316-8, $34.95
English Corpus Linguistics: Looking Back, Moving Forward [Selected papers from the 30th International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 30), Lancaster, May 2009]
Sebastian Hoffmann, Paul Rayson, and Geoffrey Leech (editors)
(University of Trier and University of Lancaster)
Amsterdam: Rodopi (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, volume 74), 2012, v+266pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-90-420-3466-2, €54.00; e-book, ISBN 978-94-012-0747-8, €47.00
*Sensorimotor Cognition and Natural Language Syntax
Alistair Knott
(University of Otago)
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012, xi+392 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-0-262-01776-3, $45.00, £31.95
English Corpus Linguistics: Crossing Paths
Merja Kytö
(Uppsala University)
Amsterdam: Rodopi (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, volume 76), 2012, vii+255pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-90-420-3518-8, €58.00; e-book, ISBN 978-94-012-0793-5, €53.00
Sentiment Analysis and Opinion Mining
Bing Liu
(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 16), 2012, xiv+165 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-884-4, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-885-1, $30.00 or by subscription
Corpus Linguistics and Variation in English: Theory and description [Selected papers from the 31st Annual Conference of the International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English (ICAME), Giessen, May 2010]
Joybrato Mukerjee and Magnus Huber (editors)
(Justus Liebig University)
Amsterdam: Rodopi (Language and computers: Studies in practical linguistics, volume 75), 2012, v+258pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-90-420-3495-2, €55.00; e-book, ISBN 978-94-012-0771-3, €50.00
Natural Language Processing for Historical Texts
Michael Piotrowski
(Leibniz Institute of European History, Germany)
Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 17), 2012, xi+145 pp; paperbound, ISBN 978-1-60845-946-9, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-60845-947-6, $30.00 or by subscription
Advances in Generative Lexicon Theory
James Pustejovsky1, Pierrette Bouillon2, Hitoshi Isahara3, Kyoko Kanzaki4, and Chugmin Lee5 (editors)
(1Brandeis University, 2Université de Genève, 3Toyohashi University of Technology, 4National Institute for
Japanese Language and Linguistics,
and 5Seoul National University)
Springer (Text, speech and language technology series, edited by Nancy Ide, volume 46), 2013, viii+488 pp; hardbound, ISBN 978-94-007-5188-0, $179.00; e-book, ISBN 978-94-007-5189-7, $139.99
Computer-Assisted Language Learning: Diversity in research and practice
Glenn Stockwell (editor)
(Waseda University)
Cambridge University Press, 2012,
xiv+213 pp; hardbound,
ISBN 978-1-107-01634-7, $99.00