We are pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue of
Linguistic
Issues in Language Technology on the Interaction of Linguistics and
Computational Linguistics, with contributions from a wide-range of
luminaries
from Linguistics and Computational Linguistics:
http://elanguage.net/journals/index.php/lilt/issue/current
Table of Contents:
The Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics
Timothy Baldwin and Valia Kordoni
Data-Intensive Experimental Linguistics
Steven Abney
On Achieving and Evaluating Language-Independence in NLP
Emily Bender
Bootstrapping the Language Archive
Steven Bird
A Pendulum Swung too Far
Kenneth Church
Computational Linguistics without Linguistics? View from Prague
Eva Hajičová
How relevant is linguistics to computational linguistics?
Mark Johnson
Zipf's Law and l'Arbitraire du Signe
Martin Kay
(Xx*-)Linguistics: Because We Love Language
Tracy Holloway King
Variety, Idiosyncracy, and Complexity in Language and Language
Technologies
Lori Levin
Romantics and Revolutionaries
Mark Steedman
Tim Baldwin (University of Melbourne)
Valia Kordoni (DFKI GmbH and Saarland University)