SUBJECT GUIDE FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Finding articles and conference papers:
Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) - Scholarly and general interest sources in every subject. Many are full-text.
ACM Digital Library - Full-text of articles published by the Association for Computing Machinery. Includes conference papers as well as journals.
Engineering Village 2 - Huge engineering database which includes computing science, information technology. Using this link will search Inspec too. See Inspec information below.
Google Scholar (video tutorial on how to use at UW)
IEEE Xplore - Full-text access to IEEE transactions, IEEE and IEE journals, magazines, conference proceedings since 1988, and current standards.
Inspec - Indexes and abstracts serials, conference proceedings, standards and reports in the physical sciences, electrical engineering and computer science.
LLBA - Covers the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics
MLA - Indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. Provides access to citations from worldwide publications, including periodicals, books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations and bibliographies.
Proquest Dissertations & Theses - Includes citations for dissertations ranging from 1861 to those accepted six months ago. Dissertations published from 1980 forward include 350-word abstracts; master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Titles available as native or image PDF formats include free twenty-four page previews. Many UW dissertations are full-text. Dissertations from other schools can be found online here or ordered through UW Interlibrary Loan.
Web of Science - Science, social sciences, and arts and humanities citation indexes and current article citations.
Finding books:
WorldCat - Books in other libraries. If books are not available at UW or through Summit, order from Interlibrary Loan. Many articles in WorldCat, and some books, are available in the packages listed above, so check the UW-only catalog separately for the name of journal, or conferences by title keywords.
WorldCat can export to Refworks, a bibliographic database for your references. UW Refworks can export to BibTeX, if you prefer that citation tool. Here's some help from MIT--Using Refworks with LaTeX/BibTeX.
Dictionaries and Encyclopedias:
UW Reference Tools - Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford Reference (many bilingual dictionaries), Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics