ABSTRACT
For several years now, it has been true to say that the information technology currently available to the scholarly community in our area is increasingly able to provide seductively easy-to-use capture, storage, processing and retrieval facilities for speech and natural language data. And the pace is quickening. At first, these facilities were primarily deployed to fulfil what were perceived to be our most obvious current research needs. In other words, the available information technology was seen largely through the spectacles of how pre-computational linguistics had been done before computing came together with linguistics and phonetics.
