Expert system software has not been a success, partly because of the
lacklustre linguistic abilities of its designers, according to Knowledge
Machines: Language and Information in a Technological Society (Longman,
£35, ISBN 0 582 07132 1) by Denise Murray. Her wide-ranging but somewhat
stretched analysis of the effect of IT on linguistics details how developments
such as the Internet and high street cash machines affect language.
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