This publication is a sample issue of a new reference publication "designed to meet the growing demand for substantial, timely coverage of the literature dealing with the interfaces of linguistics, computation, information science, and related fields." Prepared by the Language Information Network and Clearinghouse System (LINCS) at the Center for Applied Linguistics with the assistance of institutions in the United States, Canada, and both Eastern and Western Europe, "Language and Automation" also constitutes an experiment in international cooperation under the auspices of the International Committee on Computational Linguistics. This initial issue contains 460 annotated references to books, reports, and periodical publications classified under the following headings: General, Language Sciences, Theoretical Linguistics, Linguistics and Computation, Mechanical Translation, Quantitative Linguistics, Languages, Machine-Aided Language Learning; Computer Science, Information Science, Automation in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and Related Fields and Applications. Entries are indexed by subject and author. (FWB)