On mondays, I think linguists -- Chomsky, Pinker, the lot of them -- are pseudoscientists peddling bumhug. Kind of like certain bad apple social scientists and continental philosophers -- see The Sokal Affair.

On tuesdays, I think maybe linguists are more like physicists than the wizards sokal pulled back the curtain on.

Enh, who knows. But a good place to start on the bad news of solving linguistics problems with computing is Pinker's The Language Instinct. Bumhug he may be, on mondays, but I liked the book it a lot anyways :)