For nearly half a century Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching thediscipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semioticphenomenon ... » 

For nearly half a century Professor M. A. K. Halliday has been enriching thediscipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semioticphenomenon we call language. This tenvolume series presents the seminal worksof Professor Halliday. Throughout his career Professor Halliday has continuedto address the issue of the application of linguistic scholarship toComputational and Quantitative Studies. The sixth volume in the CollectedWorks of M. A. K. Halliday includes works that span the last five decadescovering developments in machine translation and corpus linguistics. Alsoincluded is discussion of recent collaborative efforts bringing together thoseworking in systemic functional grammar fuzzy logic and intelligentcomputing engaging in what Halliday refers to as computing with meaning. Theprinciples and methods outlined in these papers remain as relevant today aswhen they were first published continuing to point the way forward in anendeavour where success depends more on advancing our knowledge of languagethan machines. «