Here are some useful books for people doing computational research in linguistics.
Unicode Demystified Richard Gillam ![]() A detailed introduction to and explanation of the Unicode standard. |
Unicode Standard, Version 5.0 The Unicode Consortium ![]() The standard itself, worth having in print form if you do much work with Unicode. |
Fonts and Encodings Yannis Haralambous ![]() A detailed explanation of current font technology, with descriptions of common encodings. |
Mastering Regular Expressions Jeffrey Friedl ![]() A thorough discussion of regular expressions, including several common notations and tips for optimization. Not for novices. |
Analyzing Linguistic Data R. H. Baayen ![]() An excellant introduction to statistics useful in linguistics using the free software package R. |
Text Processing in Python David Mertz ![]() A good introduction to text processing in Python. The examples, however, are more of interest to programmers than to linguists. |
Finite State Morphology K. R. Beesley & Lauri Karttunen ![]() An excellant explanation of how to use the Xerox Finite State Tools, with realistic examples. |
Phonetic Data Analysis Peter Ladefoged ![]() An introduction to the methods of instrumental phonetics including field methods. |