本书是《韩礼德文集》丛书中的第6卷《计算机与定量语言》本书分为三个部分：第一部分收集了韩礼德早期对计算语言学的分支领域——机器翻译的研究成果；第二部分收集了对概率语法和语料库的研究；第三部分探讨针对语言中的模糊现象，如何用计算机处理语言的意义等有关问题。

Professor M.A.K.Halliday,was Foundation Professor of Linguistics at the University of Sydney until his retirement and has taught as Visiting Professor around the world As a seif-styled generalist he has published in many branches of linguistics.

Preface
Acknowledgements
PART ONE MACHINE TRANSLATION: THE EARLY YEARS
Editor's Introduction
1 The Linguistic Basis of a Mechanical Thesaurus
2 Linguistics and Machine Translation
PART TWO PROBABILISTIC GRAMMAR AND THE CORPUS
Editor's Introduction
3 Towards Probabilistic Interpretations
4 Corpus Studies and Probabilistic Grammar
5 Language as System and Language as Instance: The Corpus as a Theoretical Construct
6 [with Z.L.James] A Quantitative Study of Polarity and Primary Tense in the English Finite Clause
7 Quantitative Studies and Probabilities in Grammar
8 The Spoken Language Corpus: A Foundation for Grammatical Theory
PART THREE TOWARDS 'INTELLIGENT COMPUTING' (COMPUTING WITH MEANING)
Editor's Introduction
9 On Language in Relation to Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Computing
10 Fuzzy Grammatics: A Systemic Functional Approach to Fuzziness in Natural Language
11 Computing Meanings: Some Reflections on Past Experience and Present Prospects
Appendix: Systems of the English Clause: A Trial Grammar for the PENMAN Text Generation Project [Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California]
Bibliography
Index