Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Treebanks and Linguistic Theories (TLT 7)

I will cover some of the main stages of my projects in Computational Linguistics through 60 years, from their very beginning after World War II to the Internet era, including my most recent works on 'Lessico Tomistico Biculturale' and the syntactic annotation of data in the 'Index Thomisticus' Treebank project. The talk will describe how and why the idea of electronic data processing in literary and linguistic analysis came to my mind at first, remembering my meeting with Mr. Thomas Watson at IBM and his decision to fund the realization of 'Index Thomisticus' since 1949. I will describe how meticuolous is the research methodology in linguistics which is imposed by (and thanks to) the use of computers. Through the years, I applied this methodology to more than 20 different languages (starting from Latin) and to many fields of Computational Linguistics, such as semiautomatic lemmatization, machine dictionaries, textual typology, methods of treatment of different alphabets etc. 1