Quantitative Linguistics???

[Scott.Fahlman@SEF1.SLISP.CS.CMU.EDU]

Perhaps the people who sent out this conference announcement could follow
up with a *brief* description of what quantitative linguistics is all
about, and why they are so excited about new advances in the area.  I'm not
familiar with the term, and the conference announcement didn't make clear
how qualitaive linguistics differs from older (qualitative?)  linguistic
models, except maybe that the key researchers are all in Europe.

And what does quantitative linguistics have to do with connectionism?

-- Scott Fahlman, Carnegie-Mellon University