This volume investigates the integration of computational methodologies into traditional humanities research and pedagogy. Edited by Nancy Ide and Susan Hockey, the collection compiles peer-reviewed papers from the 1990 joint conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers in the Humanities. It serves as a formal record of the technical advancements and theoretical frameworks applied to linguistic and historical analysis during that period.

Experts recognize this volume as a foundational archival record for the development of digital humanities as a distinct academic discipline. Scholars frequently cite these papers to understand the early technical constraints and methodological shifts in computational linguistics and text processing.