IN OCTOBER 1966 A SEMINAR WAS HELD IN BETHESDA, MARYLAND ON THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN LANGUAGE RESEARCH. THE ORGANIZERS OF THE CONFERENCE, THE CENTER FOR APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, ATTEMPTED TO BRING TOGETHER EMINENT REPRESENTATIVES OF THE MAJOR SCHOOLS OF CURRENT LINGUISTIC RESEARCH. THE PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE CONFERENCE ARE PUBLISHED HERE WITH BRIEF OUTLINES OF THE DISCUSSIONS THEY STIMULATED. TITLES AND AUTHORS ARE--(1) LINGUISTICS AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH BY J.R. PIERCE, (2) THE DOMAIN OF THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES BY C.A. FERGUSON, (3) COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS BY W.P. LEHMANN, (4) AUTOMATIC SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS BY SUSUMU KUNO, (5) TRANSFORMATIONAL ANALYSIS BY COMPUTER BY A.K. JOSHI, (6) INFORMATION REDUCTION OF TEXTS BY SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS BY N. SAGER, (7) MAN-MACHINE COMMUNICATION BY F.B. THOMPSON, (8) PROCESSING NATURAL LANGUAGE TEXT BY D.G. HAYS, (9) COMPUTING NATURAL LANGUAGE AND NATURAL LANGUAGE IN COMPUTING BY P.L. GARVIN, (10) LANGUAGE UNIVERSALS BY J.H. GREENBERG, (11) MODELS OF LANGUAGE USERS BY V.H. YNGVE, AND (12) DIRECTIONS IN SEMANTIC RESEARCH BY H. RUBENSTEIN. THIS DOCUMENT IS AVAILABLE AS A 108-PAGE BOOKLET FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS, U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20402 FOR $0.45 (CATALOG NO. FS 2.22--L64). (JD)