Review of Martin Weisser's Essential Programming for Linguistics (University of Edinburgh Press)
[a few lines from my review of this book. The full review is available through the link at the bottom of this posting]
Book
Review
Essential
Programming for Linguistics
Martin
Weisser
Bayreuth
University, Germany.
Edinburgh
University Press (Edinburgh Advanced Textbooks in Linguistics, edited by Peter
Ackema and Mitsuhiko Ota); x+174pp, Edinburgh, UK; hardbound ISBN 978 0 7486
3855 0, $115; paperbound, ISBN 78 0 7486 3856 7, $29.50.
Reviewed
by
Brian Ó
Broin
William
Paterson University
This is a very disappointing book to come out of such a reputable
publishing house. Weisser claims that the book is “mainly intended [...] for
linguists without any prior programming experience” (1), but as just such a
scholar, with nevertheless considerable experience in multiple operating
systems and open-source software, this reviewer found the book almost useless
as a Perl primer for linguists.
In truth, there is little in this book that is not already
available in the much-friendlier Programming for Linguists by Michael
Hammond (Blackwell, 2003), which remains the best Perl introduction for linguists.
*Note: I see that Martin Weisser has responded below. I still stand by everything I say in the review.*
https://aclweb.org/anthology-new/J/J10/J10-4014.pdf
Labels: computational linguistics, cpan, linguistics, perl, programming, regex, weisser
posted by sacsanua @ 8:06 AM
1 Comments:
Neither what appears in this post, nor the 'full review', which is actually not even classified as such in the journal, represents any valid academic comment on the book.
The form of the 'full review' is disgraceful, uninformed, and not even worthy of being published on Amazon.
The only bit of factual truth in the whole article concerns a minor error which has since been flagged as an erratum on the accompanying website.
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