How can computer technologies help linguistic typology?

The intensive development of computer linguistics in recent years shows that linguistic theories can be quite useful in solving various computer technology-associated problems. In particular, we mean information search and scanned text, or spam recognition. In turn, such technologies can be useful to solve purely linguistic tasks. This article exemplifies this statement by the Jazyki mira (Languages of the World) computer database, based on a series of monographs of the same name, prepared by the Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics of the RAS Institute of Linguistics under the general editorship of A.A. Kibrik.