This new annual publication represents the state of the art in humanities computing. Each volume will contain a selection of papers presented at the joint conference of the North American-based Association for Computers in the Humanities, and the European-based Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. Each volume will address topics such as concordances, text retrieval, stylistics, statistical applications, context analysis, hypertext, lexicography, computational linguistics, language learning, humanities computing facilities, textual editing, text archives, encoding formats, scholarly publishing, and language learning. This first volume contains twenty-five papers from the Dynamic Text ACH-ALLC Conference, which was held in Toronto in June, 1989.