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Philology
The philological and linguistic applications of computers have been much discussed. Various classes of documents from different historical periods and linguistic communities can be recorded on tapes which computers can then process to produce indexes of graphic and graphicsemantic forms, with accompanying context. As a result, philological studies can be more comprehensive and exact than in the past. Anyone who has come upon instances of a usage earlier than those recorded by the monumental Oxford English Dictionary, and upon other usages that are not recorded at all, can testify to the need for a complete and accurate dictionary of Elizabethan English. Computers could speed the publication of such a dictionary.
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