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Title: Overly simplistic
Review: This book is overly simplistic even for linguists with no programming experience. The problem I had with it is that it had too few examples of applications that could be written to deal with linguistic research. It would have been good to offer a real world example of say a syntactic parser or the like. Functions which are particularly pertinent to linguistics should have been highlighted a lot more to be a better more effective manual for the non-programming linguist.Also, by leaving out technical details of perl it is harder for the non-programmer to go on to other perl sources. Overall I found this book to be an okay basic starter for a non-programmer, but not particularly useful for linguists who are interested in automating linguistic processes.
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