Programming for Corpus Linguistics

Rating:
Summary: Not for anyone with programming experience
Review: I had expected this book to contain more practical implementations than it does. It's a confusing book primarily because it doesn't seem to know who its target audience is. As written, the book is going to be too basic for anyone with a programming background, and too complex for corpus linguists unfamiliar with programming concepts. It claims to be suitable for both, but programmers will find much better references to stemming and corpus creation in other sources (e.g. the Jurafsky/Martin book) and corpus linguists would be better advised to pick up a basic book on programming if that's what they're interested in learning.

Rating:
Summary: Java for CL
Review: Not for those who already know Java, this book gives non-Java
programmers with an interest in corpus linguistics an overview of what Java has to offer.

Its not a useful book for non-programmers or those who don't know anything about corpus linguistics either.

This could be used as a companion book for an undergraduate class in corpus linguistics.

I refer to it occasionally when I need to do something in Java.