Talk:Computational linguistics

== Removing Reference 4 ==

Hello! Just wanted to preface this message with the information that I’m a student doing this for a class and this is my first ever Wikipedia edit, so feel free to swiftly correct me on anything.

I plan to delete Reference 4, Arnold B. Barach: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/bostworld/2152048032/in/set-72157603898383698/ Translating Machine] 1975: And the Changes To Come, for the following reasons:

# The source apparently being cited is a book of predictions written in 1962 about what inventions would exist in 1975, but does not appear to be an actual scholarly source of any real facts regarding computational linguistics specifically. It was just one man making educated guesses about the future, and the section on the “Translating Machine” from what I can find is brief and not supportive of the sentence for which it is cited—namely that simple machine translation efforts grew into more varied NLP endeavors. If the point of citing it there was to show that in the mid-twentieth century, focus was on mere machine translation, I think a better source is needed. And “Translating Machine” makes no mention of NLP at all that I can find.

# The actual hyperlink in the citation leads to an error 404 message on flickr.com. I cannot find the actual full book anywhere, only previews and quotations in other articles. I believe the now defunct link was originally derived from this blog post: https://admerix.blogspot.com/2010/10/machine-transtation-future-is-not-just.html, but in any case, a blog hardly meets Wikipedia’s source credibility requirements in this matter.

# Reference 4 is only cited once in the whole computational linguistics article anyway, and the one sentence it’s cited for already has another, more credible and properly linked source—reference 3—attached to it.

TLDR: Reference 4 seems inappropriate, difficult to verify, and redundant, so I am going to delete it. [[User:VoicelessUvularStop|VoicelessUvularStop]] ([[User talk:VoicelessUvularStop|talk]]) 10:47, 21 April 2026 (UTC)