Natural Language Processing FAQ
Dragomir R. Radev
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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[1] What is this FAQ all about
[2] What is Computational Linguistics
[3] What is comp.ai.nat-lang
[4] How to get updates to this FAQ
[5] World-Wide Web resources.
[6] Which schools offer graduate programs in CL/NLP
[7] How to apply to graduate school in CL/NLP in the USA
[8] Organizations that are partly related to CL/NLP
[9] Major non-academic research laboratories
[10] What major publications exist in the field
[11] Bibliographies
[12] Electronic mailing lists
[13] Newsgroups
[14] Professional Organizations, Associations
[15] Major Conferences
[16] Evaluation Competitions
[17] How to join a mailing list
[18] How to obtain files by anonymous ftp
[19] FTP repositories
[20] What are some important books in NLP
[21] Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
[22] Machine Translation
[23] What are the major accomplishments of the field
[24] Publishers
[25] Credits
Disclaimers and Notes
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[1] What is this FAQ all about
This is an attempt to put together a list of frequently (and not so
frequently) asked questions about Natural Language Processing and their
answers. This document is in no way perfect or complete or 100% accurate.
In no way should the maintainer be responsible for damage resulting
directly or indirectly from using information in this FAQ.
The FAQ originated from Mark Kantrowitz's FAQ on AI. Some questions in
the present document come directly from Mark's original FAQ (available
at http://www.faqs.org).
This FAQ is maintained by Dragomir R. Radev of the University of
Michigan. Please send me all your comments, suggestions, corrections,
additions, and such to my e-mail address:
ra...@umich.edu
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[2] What is Computational Linguistics
Computational linguistics (CL) is a discipline between linguistics and
computer science which is concerned with the computational aspects of the
human language faculty. It belongs to the cognitive sciences and overlaps
with the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a branch of computer
science that is aiming at computational models of human cognition.
There are two components of CL: applied and theoretical.
The applied component of CL is more interested in the practical
outcome of modelling human language use. The goal is to create
software products that have some knowledge of human language. Such
products are urgently needed for improving human-machine interaction
since the main obstacle in the interaction beween human and computer
is one of communication. Today's computers do not understand our
language, and humans have difficulties understand the computer's
language, which does not correspond to the structure of human thought.
Natural language interfaces enable the user to communicate with the
computer in German, English or another human language. Some applications
of such interfaces are database queries, information retrieval from texts
and so-called expert systems. Current advances in recognition of spoken
language improve the usability of many types of natural language systems.
Communication with computers using spoken language will have a lasting
impact upon the work environment, opening up completely new areas of
application for information technology.
Although existing CL programs are far from achieving human ability, they
have numerous possible applications. Even if the language the machine
understands and its domain of discourse are very restricted, the use of
human language can increase the acceptance of software and the productivity
of its users.
Much older than communication problems between human beings and machines
are those between people with different mother tongues. One of the
original goals of applied computational linguistics was fully automatic
translation between human languages. From bitter experience scientists
have realized that they are far from achieving this. Nevertheless,
computational linguists have created software systems which can simplify
the work of human translators and clearly improve their productivity.
The future of applied computational linguistics will be determined by the
growing need for user-friendly software. Even though the successful
simulation of human language competence is not to be expected in the near
future, computational linguists have numerous immediate research goals
involving the design, realization and maintenance of systems which
facilitate everyday work, such as grammar checkers for word processing
programs.
Theoretical CL takes up issues in formal theories. It deals with
formal theories about the linguistic knowledge that a human needs for
generating and understanding language. Today these theories have
reached a degree of complexity that can only be managed by employing
computers. Computational linguists develop formal models simulating
aspects of the human language faculty and implement them as computer
programmes. These programmes constitute the basis for the evaluation
and further development of the theories. In addition to linguistic
theories, findings from cognitive psychology play a major role in
simulating linguistic competence. Within psychology, it is mainly the
area of psycholinguistics that examines the cognitive processes
constituting human language use.
The special attraction of computational linguistics lies in the combination
of methods and strategies from the humanities, natural and behavioural
sciences, and engineering.
SEE ALSO: http://www.aclweb.org/archive/what.html which contains:
* Chapter 1 of Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Sch|tze, 1999,
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA.
* Chapter 1 of Daniel Jurafsky and James H. Martin, 2000, Speech and
Language Processing, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey.
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[3] What is comp.ai.nat-lang
Here follows the original charter for comp.ai.nat-lang.
Name: comp.ai.nat-lang
Moderation: This group will be unmoderated.
Purpose: To discuss issues relating to natural language, especially
computer-related issues from an AI viewpoint. The topics
that will be discussed in this group will concentrate on, but
are not limited to, the following:
* Natural Language Understanding
* Natural Language Generation
* Machine Translation
* Dialogue and Discourse Systems
* Natural Language Interfaces
* Parsing
* Computational Linguistics
* Computer-Aided Language Learning
This group will avoid discussing issues that are more properly
covered by other newsgroups. For example, speech synthesis
should be discussed in comp.speech. However, due to the
interdisciplinary nature of the field, there may be overlap in
material between other groups. To try to keep this to a
minimum, topics should pertain to computer-related aspects
of natural language.
Rules of Decorum: Because of the unmoderated format, anyone with access to
this newsgroup will be able to post without review.
This is meant to encourage discussion of the topics.
Please refrain from "flames" or unnecessary criticism
of a person's viewpoints or personality in a harsh
or insulting manner. Criticisms should constructive
and polite whenever possible.
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[4] How to get updates to this FAQ
This FAQ is available currently from the following newsgroups:
comp.ai.nat-lang, comp.answers, comp.ai, and news.answers
It is posted once a month although updates are made less often.
The official archive of the above newsgroups is at MIT. You can get a
copy of the FAQ from
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/comp/ai/nat-lang
Another major site with lots of FAQs (including this one) is
http://www.faqs.org
The current copy can also be retrieved from the following URL:
http://www.aclweb.org/faq/nlpfaq.txt
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[5] World-Wide Web resources.
GENERAL RESOURCES AND CATALOGS
5.1. The Association for Computational Linguistics site:
http://www.aclweb.org
The Association for Computational Linguistics is the major
international organization in the field.
5.2. The ACL NLP/CL Universe:
http://www.aclweb.org/u/db/acl/
The largest index of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language
Processing resources on the Web. It features a search engine
which should allow you to find specific NLP-related Web pages.
5.3. The Computation and Language E-Print Archive
http://xxx.lanl.gov/archive/cs/
The Computation and Language E-Print Archive is a fully automated
electronic archive and distribution server for papers on
computational linguistics, natural-language processing,
speech processing, and related fields.
5.4. The Survey of the State of the Art of Human Language Technology
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/CSLU/HLTsurvey/
This book surveys the state of the art of human language
technology. The goal of the survey is to provide an interested reader
with an overview of the field---the main areas of work, the
capabilities and limitations of current technology, and the technical
challenges that must be overcome to realize the vision of graceful
human computer interaction using natural communication skills.
5.5. The Linguistic Data Consortium
http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/
The Linguistic Data Consortium is an open consortium of universities,
companies and government research laboratories. It creates, collects
and distributes speech and text databases, lexicons, and other
resources for research and development purposes. The University of
Pennsylvania is the LDC's host institution.
5.6. The Language Technology Helpdesk
http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/helpdesk/faq/index.html
Frequently-asked questions of the Human COmmunication Research
Centre at U. Edinburgh.
RESOURCES ON DIFFERENT TOPICS
5.7. Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar
http://julius.ling.ohio-state.edu/HPSG/Hpsg.html
The HPSG offers current information relating to various aspects
of the grammar formalism and linguistic theory of Head-Driven
Phrase Structure Grammar, a constraint-based, lexicalist
approach to grammatical theory that seeks to model human
languages as systems of constraints on typed feature structures.
5.8. Lexical Functional Grammar
http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/LFG/
This site provides access to information about various aspects
of the grammatical theory known as Lexical Functional Grammar
(LFG).
5.9. Word Grammar
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/Word-Grammar/wig-www.htm
This site houses publications on Word-Grammar and has some
information on the group and its meetings.
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[6] Which schools offer graduate programs in CL/NLP
This list is, *of course*, completely preliminary. Please send me
information about other programs. I will try and get in touch with the
editors of the ACL guide to Graduate Programs in CL for more information.
Universities are given in alphabetical order. If a certain university
is not included now and you feel it must be included, please send me
some information about it.
Australia:
Melbourne, University of
Microsoft Institute of Advanced Software Technology in association with
Macquarie University
Canada:
Montreal, University of
Ottawa, University of
Simon Fraser University
Toronto, University of
Waterloo, University of
Finland:
Helsinki, University of
France:
Paris 7, Jussieu, University of
Provence, University of
Germany:
Bonn, University of
Heidelberg, University of
Humboldt University, Berlin
Koblenz-Landau, University of
Munich, University of
Osnabrueck, University of
Saarland, University of the
Potsdam, University of
Stuttgart, University of
Tuebingen, University of
Italy:
Pisa, University of
Trento, University of
Japan:
Kyoto University
Korea:
Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang
Netherlands:
Amsterdam, University of
Groningen, University of
Nijmegen, University of
Tilburg, University of
Utrecht, University of
Sweden:
Goteborg (Gothenburg), University of
Skoevde, University of
Uppsala, University of
Switzerland:
Geneva, University of
Zurich, University of
UK:
Brighton, University of
Cambridge, University of
Durham, University of
Essex, University of
Edinburgh, University of
Sheffield, University of
Sussex, University of
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
USA:
Brown University
Buffalo, SUNY at
California at Berkeley, University of
California at Los Angeles, University of
Carnegie-Mellon University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Delaware, University of
Duke University
Georgetown University
Georgia, University of
Georgia Institute of Technology
Harvard University
Indiana University
Information Sciences Institute (ISI) at the University of Southern California
Johns Hopkins University
Massachusetts at Amherst, University of
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Michigan, University of
New Mexico State University
New York University
Ohio State University
Pennsylvania, University of
Rochester, University of
Southern California, University of
Stanford University
SUNY, Buffalo
Utah, University of
Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of
Yale University
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[7]How to apply to graduate school in CL/NLP in the USA
Usually, the best timetable is as follows (given that M is the month
when your studies would start, usually, in September)
M - 24 : Try to clarify your interests: is it really NLP
that you are interested in? What possible
subfields might be of interest to you? ...etc.
Remember: 5 years working in an area you are
not interested in will be a very painful
experience.
M - 18 : Read publications in the area of your interest
in order to discover the best places for
you. Pay close attention to the specific fields of
research: which professors are most active in those
fields, and which institutions.
Remember: Unless you are familiar with the most
current research, you will not be able
to find the best place for you.
M - 18 : Go to your local library and consult some of the
available directories (see [3-3]) - write down
as much information as you can about some
15-25 universities. These universities form your
preliminary list.
Remember: There are some 100 universities in the
USA offering NLP/CL programs. Some of them
will be more attractive to you than others.
M - 18 : Talk to your advisers at school, talk to other
students, post questions on the Internet, visit
departmental Web sites.
This way you will get advice on a few more univer-
sities that you might have skipped until this moment.
Remember: Others have faced what you are going
through. Use their experience.
M - 15 : Send letters to the universities that you have
on your preliminary list. Make sure you indicate
when do you want to start, what degree (MA, MS,
Ph.D.) you are interested in, whether or not
you will be applying for financial aid, whether
you will need some special visa...
Remember: Ask for all the information that you
need; give them all the information they'd
need to satisfy your request.
M - 12 : Read carefully the information that you have
received from the universities. Shorten your list
of places to the number that you will eventually
apply to (usually 5-8 is a good number).
Remember: Make sure you include both your best choice
schools and some places where you are almost
certain of getting accepted.
M - 10 : Fill in all the forms that are sent to you,
ask your professors to send reference letters to
the schools directly.
Remember: Professors will probably be very busy.
Give them the reference forms
as early as possible and make sure you
specify a reasonable time for them to fill
them in and send them out.
M - 10 : (or earlier) - take the necessary tests (GRE,
TOEFL, or others) that the schools want. Make sure
you tell the testing service which universities
you want them to send your scores to.
Remember: Time yourself through several practice
tests. The GRE General test, for example,
is more about mastery of timing than knowledge.
M - 9 : (approximately) - mail your forms to the schools,
preferably 2-3 weeks before the deadlines.
Remember: You don't want your applications to get there
at the same time as everyone else. Give the
admissions committee some extra time to
review your application.
M - 6 : usually six months before the beginning of the semester
that you are applying for, you will get a letter
saying whether you have been accepted.
Remember: Usually, thick letters, e-mails, and telegrams
mean acceptance. Thin one-sheet letters will
most likely be disappointing for you.
M - 5 : now, you have been accepted to a few schools. Go back
to the same resources that you used when you were
deciding where to apply (journals, catalogs, directo-
ries, professors, etc.). Ask the schools that accepted
you to fly you in for a visit (many will do this).
Remember: Don't forget non-academic factors such as
location, financial aid, the atmosphere in
the department, etc.
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[8] Organizations that are partly related to CL/NLP
International Assoc of MT (IAMT) and its daughters AMTA, EAMT, AAMT
http://www.eamt.org
http://www.isi.edu/natural-language/organizations/amta/
http://www.jeida.or.jp/aamt/index-e.html
ACM SIGIR (Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval)
http://www.sigir.org
ICSLP
http://www.icspl.org
ACL SIGS (SIGDAT, SIGDIAL, SIGGEN, SIGLEX, SIGMEDIA, SIGMOL, SIGNLL,
SIGPARSE, SIGPHON, SIGSEM)
http://www.aclweb.org/information.html
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[9] Major non-academic research laboratories
AT&T Labs - Research
BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
DFKI (German research center for AI)
General Electric R&D
IRST, Italy
IBM T.J. Watson Research, NY
Lucent Technologies Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ
Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA
MITRE
NEC Corporation
SRI International, Menlo Park, CA
SRI International, Cambridge, UK
Xerox, Palo Alto, CA
XRCE, Grenoble, France
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[10] What major publications exist in the field
10.1. COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
Computational Linguistics is the only publication devoted exclusively
to the design and analysis of natural language processing
systems. From this unique quarterly, university and industry
linguists, computational linguists, artificial intelligence (AI)
investigators, cognitive scientists, speech specialists, and
philosophers get information about computational aspects of research
on language, linguistics, and the psychology of language processing
and performance.
Published by The MIT Press for: The Association for Computational Linguistics.
URL: http://mitpress.mit.edu/journal-home.tcl?issn=08912017
10.2. JOURNAL OF NATURAL LANGUAGE ENGINEERING (JNLE)
Editors:
Dr B. K. Boguraev, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York, USA
Professor Roberto Garigliano, University of Durham, UK
Dr John I. Tait, University of Sunderland, UK
Published: March, June, September and December. ISSN:1351-3249.
Natural Language Engineering is an international journal designed
to meet the needs of professionals and researchers working in all
areas of computerised language processing, whether from the
perspective of theoretical or descriptive linguistics, lexicology,
computer science or engineering. Its principal aim is to bridge the
gap between traditional computational linguistics research and the
implementation of practical applications with potential real-world
use. As well as publishing research articles on a broad range of
topics – from text analysis, machine translation and speech
generation and synthesis to integrated systems and multi modal
interfaces – the journal also publishes book reviews. Its aim is
to provide the essential link between industry and the academic community
10.3. COMPUTER SPEECH & LANGUAGE (CS&L)
Editors: Prof. S.J. Young & Dr. S.E. Levinson
Send manuscripts (worldwide apart from the Americas) to:
Prof. Steve Young, Cambridge University Engineering Dept.,
Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1PZ, England.
Email: s...@eng.cam.ac.uk
Send manuscripts (from the Americas) to:
Dr. Steve Levinson, Head Linguistics Reseach,
AT&T Bell Laboratories, 600 Mountain Ave.,
Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974. USA.
Email: s...@research.att.com
US Subscription rates are $170, with a personal rate of $75.
CS&L is published 4 times per year.
The address for subscription orders is:
Harcourt Brace and Company Limited,
High Street, Foots Cray,
Sidcup, Kent, DA14 SHP. England.
10.4. MACHINE TRANSLATION
Published 4 times annually. ISSN 0922-6567.
Subscriptions: Institutions $141 plus $16 postage; Individuals $55
(members of ACL $46).
Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The
Netherlands, or Kluwer Academic Publishers, PO Box 358, Accord
Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358.
10.5. SPEECH TECHNOLOGY
Published quarterly, since 1981.
Media Dimensions, New York, NY, USA
10.6. NATURAL LANGUAGE & LINGUISTIC THEORY (NALA)
Published quarterly. ISSN 0167-806X
Subscriptions: Individual $59,-/Dfl.156,-; Institutional $200,-/Dfl.383,-
including p&h. Kluwer Academic Publishers
USA: Order Dept, Box 358, Accord Station, Hingham, MA 02018-0358. Phone
(617) 871-6600; Fax (617) 871-6528; E-mail: Klu...@world.std.com
Other: P.O.Box 322, 3300 AH Dordrecht, The Netherlands. Phone (31) 78
524400; Fax (31) 78 183273; Telex: kadc nl; E-mail: vander...@wkap.nl
10.7. MIND AND LANGUAGE
Editors: Cotheart, Davies, Guttenplan, Harris, Humphreys, Leslie,
Smith, Wilson.
4 times annually
Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, UK.
10.8. JOURNAL OF LOGIC, LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION
Editor: Peter Gardenfors
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[11] Bibliographies
NLP/CL:
For information on a fairly complete bibliography of computational
linguistics and natural language processing work from the 1980s, send
mail to cl...@csli.stanford.edu with the subject HELP.
The CSLI linguistics bibliography contains 3,300 entries in
bib/tib/refer format. The bibliography is heavily slanted towards
phonetics and phonology but also includes a fair amount of
computational morphology, syntax, semantics, and psycholinguistics.
The bibliography can be used with James Alexander's tib
bibliography system, which is available from minos.inria.fr
[128.93.39.5] among other places. The bibliography itself is available
by anonymous ftp from
csli.stanford.edu:/pub/bibliography/
Contributions are welcome, but should be in tib format.
For more information, contact Andras Kornai <kor...@csli.stanford.edu>
NLG:
Robert Dale's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is
available by anonymous ftp from
scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk:/pub/nlg/ [129.215.144.3]
Note that it is formatted for A4 paper. Stick in a line
.94 .94 scale
after the %! line to print on 8.5 x 11 paper. For further information,
write to Robert Dale, University of Edinburgh, Centre for Cognitive
Science, 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW Scotland, or
<R.D...@edinburgh.ac.uk> or <rd...@microsoft.com>.
Mark Kantrowitz's Natural Language Generation (NLG) bibliography is
available by anonymous ftp from
ftp.cs.cmu.edu:/user/ai/areas/nlp/nlg/bib/mk/ [128.2.206.173]
In addition to the tech report, the BibTeX file containing the
bibliography is also available. The bibliography contains more than
1,200 entries. A searchable index to the bibliography is
available via the URL
http://liinwww.ira.uka.de/bibliography/Ai/nlg.html
Additions and corrections should be sent to mk...@cs.cmu.edu.
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[12] Electronic mailing lists
(This section is out of date - should be fixed for next release.)
Information Retrieval:
irlist <ir-l%uccvma...@vm1.nodak.edu>
Natural Language and Knowledge Representation (moderated):
nl...@cs.rpi.edu (formerly nl...@cs.rochester.edu)
Gatewayed to the newsgroup comp.ai.nlang-know-rep.
Natural Language Generation:
sig...@black.bgu.ac.il
LFG (Lexical-Functional Grammar):
http://linguistlist.org/subscribing/sub-lfg.html
Parsing:
sigp...@cs.cmu.edu
Statistics, Natural Language, and Computing:
empir...@csli.stanford.edu
Colibri (weekly update on Conferences, Seminars, Jobs and Shareware in
NLP and speech)
colibri...@let.ruu.nl
Dependency Grammar
d...@ai.uga.edu
Prosody:
list...@purccvm.bitnet
TEI:
tei-l
Text Analysis and Natural Language Applications:
SCH...@CUNYVM.BITNET
Text Corpora:
corpora...@nora.hd.uib.no
Speech production and perception:
foNETiks <fone...@mailbase.ac.uk>
LN:
l...@frmop11.bitnet
Linguist:
ling...@tamvm1.tamu.edu
ELSNET:
elsne...@cogsci.ed.ac.uk
Eastern (European) Language Engineering list:
to join, send mail to poul_a...@eurokom.ie
Preprint archive mailing list
For further information about (among other topics) submission of papers to
the server, subscribing or canceling your subscription, requesting full
text of any of the papers above, retrieving macro files for these papers,
searching past listings, or submitting comments to the server operators,
send a message:
To: CMP...@XXX.LANL.GOV
Subject: help
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[13] Newsgroups
alt.usage.english English grammar, word usages, and related
topics.
comp.ai.nat-lang Natural language processing by computers.
comp.ai.nlang-know-rep Natural Language and Knowledge Representation.
(Moderated)
comp.speech Research & applications in speech science &
technology.
sci.lang Natural languages, communication, etc.
alt.etext Electronic texts.
comp.text.sgml ISO 8879 SGML structured documents markup
languages
comp.theory.info-retrieval Information Retrieval topics. (Moderated)
comp.ai.doc-analysis.misc General document understanding technologies
comp.internet.library Discussing electronic libraries. (Moderated)
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[14] Professional Organizations, Associations
ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (ACL)
Membership in the Association for Computational Linguistics is for the
calendar year, regardless of when dues are paid. Membership includes a
full year of the ACL journal, Computational Linguistics, reduced
registration at most ACL-sponsored conferences, and discounts on
ACL-sponsored publications. Payments for membership dues, fund
donations, back issues, and proceedings may be made in Europe or the
USA.
(The rest of this section is not up to date - should be fixed for next
release):
ASSOCIATION FOR MACHINE TRANSLATION IN THE AMERICAS (AMTA)
655 Fifteenth Street, NW, Suite 310, Washington, DC 20005
Membership: $40 Associate members, $65 active members, Institutional $200,
Corporate $400. Members receive the MT News International and the
MT Yellow Pages.
SIGNLL is the ACL Special Interest Group on Natural Language Learning
(language acquisition and related topics). To join, send mail to
walter.d...@kub.nl or use the forms on the SIGNLL home page. For
more information, see the SIGNLL home page at the URL
http://www.cs.rulimburg.nl/~antal/signll/signll-home.html
COGNITIVE SCIENCE SOCIETY
Membership: $50 individuals, $25 student. Add $15 overseas postage.
Members receive a copy of the journal Cognitive Science without
additional charge. Write to Alan Lesgold, Secretary/Treasurer,
Cognitive Science Society, LRDC, University of Pittsburgh, 3939
O'Hara Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, fax 1-412-624-9149, email
a...@pitt.edu.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AAAI)
AAAI, 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025.
phone 415-328-3123, fax 415-328-4457, in...@aaai.org, membe...@aaai.org,
Membership includes AI Magazine, and the AI Directory:
$50 regular, $20 student, $75 institution/library (US/Canadian)
$75 regular, $45 student, $100 institution/library (Foreign)
AAAI has several special interest groups (SIGs) on medicine,
manufacturing, business, and law. (Add $10/year for each subgroup.)
Life memberships $700 (US/Canadian), $1000 (Foreign)
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[15] Upcoming Conferences
2002
Coling 2002 will be in Taipei, Taiwan.
The site for ACL 2002 will be announced in 2001. It is
supposed to be held in North America.
2001
Second meeting of the NAACL (NAACL'01), Pittsburgh, PA
(June 2-7, 2001)
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ref/naacl2001.html
39th Annual Meeting of the ACL (ACL'01) - joint with
EACL'01, Toulouse, France (July 6-11, 2001)
http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.html
For an updated list, check:
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/newacl/conferences.html
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[16] Evaluation Competitions
TREC - Text Retrieval Conference
Information retrieval using NLP/statistical techniques.
http://trec.nist.gov
NIST Spoken Language Technology Evaluations
http://www.nist.gov/speech/test.htm
DUC - Document Understanding Competition
http://www-nlpir.nist.gov/projects/duc/main.html
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[17] How to join a mailing list
A: Most often, you have to send mail to the listserver at the site where
the mailing list resides, and put "subscribe <listname> <yourname> in the
body of the mail message. The underlined text is what you have to type in.
Example:
Mail list...@tamvm1.tamu.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Subject: some text here
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
subscribe LINGUIST Dragomir R. Radev
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.
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[18] How to obtain files by anonymous ftp
A: There are many ways. The most common way, however, is using a local ftp
client.
Suppose you want to get the file /pub/editors/webster.tar.Z
from ftp.uu.net
Here is a sample session. You type in whatever is underlined here.
$ftp ftp.uu.net
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Connected to ftp.uu.net.
220 ftp.UU.NET FTP server Thu Apr 14 15:45:10 EDT 1994) ready.
Name (ftp.uu.net:radev): anonymous
^^^^^^^^^
331 Password required for anonymous.
Password: ra...@cs.columbia.edu
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (put your email address here)
230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
ftp> cd pub/editors
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ftp> binary
^^^^^^
ftp> get webster.tar.Z
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for webster.tar.Z (148579 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
local: webster.tar.Z remote: webster.tar.Z
148579 bytes received in 2.2 seconds (67 Kbytes/s)
ftp> quit
^^^^
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[19] FTP repositories
(This section is out of date).
19.1. Consortium for Lexical Research (CRL)
The Consortium for Lexical Research is designed to serve as a
repository for software and resources of importance to the natural
language processing research community. Sharable resources, and the
task of centralizing lexical data and tools, are of foremost
concern in lexical research and computational linguistics It
is our objective to help alleviate the repeated recreation of
basic software tools, and to assist in making essential data
sources more generally available.
CLR maintains a public ftp site, and a separate library of
materials only for members of CLR. Currently CLR has about 60
members, mostly academic institutions, and almost every major
natural language processing center in the U.S. belongs. Access to
the members-only materials is strictly regulated by password and
userid.
Our catalog of current holdings is available by using anonymous
ftp to clr.nmsu.edu
19.2. Oxford Text Archive (OTA)
ftp ota.ox.ac.uk
ota/textarchive.list the current catalogue
There are two classes of texts available from this FTP server:
(a) texts which are in TEI format and which we can make freely
available (these all appear as category P texts in the shortlist)
(b) texts which are available only under our standard conditions of
use, (these all appear as category U or A in the shortlist)
19.3. University of Michigan Linguistics Archive (UMICH)
ftp linguistics.archive.umich.edu
/linguistics
moderator: John Lawler (jla...@umich.edu)
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[20] What are some important books in NLP
Textbooks:
Allen, James F., "Natural Language Understanding", The
Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, Menlo Park, California,
(Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, Massachusetts).
Manning, C. and Schuetze, H. Foundations of Statistical Natural
Language Processing. Hardcover - 680 pages (July 1999)
MIT Press; ISBN: 0262133601
http://www.sultry.arts.usyd.edu.au/fsnlp/promo/
Jurafsky, D. and Martin, J. Speech and Language Processing.
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~martin/slp.html
Gazdar, G. and Mellish, C., "Natural Language Processing in Lisp:
An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.)
Michael A. Covington, "Natural Language Processing for Prolog
Programmers", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994. ISBN
0-13-629213-5.
General:
Rustin, Randall (ed.) "Natural Language Processing", Algorithmics Press,
New York, NY, 1973.
Schank, Roger C., and Colby, Kenneth M. (eds.) "Computer Models of Thought
and Language", W.H. Freeman, San Francisco, CA, 1973, 454 pp.
Charniak, Eugene and Wilks, Yorick A. (eds.) "Computational Semantics",
North-Holland, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1976, 294 pp.
Metzing, Dieter (ed.) "Frame Conceptions and Text Understanding",
De Gruyter, Berlin, Germany, 1980, 167 pp.
Tennant, Harry R., "Natural Language Processing", Petrocelli Books, New
York, NY, 1981.
Lehnert, Wendy G., and Ringle, Martin H. (eds.) "Strategies for Natural
Language Processing", Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1982,
533 pp.
King, Margaret (ed.) "Parsing Natural Language", Academic Press,
London, England, 1983, 308 pp.
Grosz, Barbara J., Sparck-Jones, Karen, and Webber, Bonnie L., eds.
"Readings in Natural Language Processing", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, Los Altos, CA, 1986, 664 pages. ISBN 0-934613-11-7, $44.95.
Robert C. Berwick, "Computational Linguistics", MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 1989, ISBN 0262-02266-4.
Brady, Michael, and Berwick, Robert C., eds. "Computational Models
of Discourse", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
Ralph Grishman, "Computational Linguistics: An Introduction",
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1986, 193 pages.
Terry Winograd, "Language as a Cognitive Process", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, MA, 1983.
Schank, R. and Abelson, R. "Scripts, Plans, Goals, and Understanding,"
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1977.
Terminology:
David Crystal, "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics", 3rd Edition,
Basil Blackwell Publishers, New York, 1991.
Parsing:
Tomita, M. (Editor), "Current Issues in Parsing Technology",
Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, MA, 1991.
Marcus, M. "A Theory of Syntactic Recognition for Natural Language,"
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1980.
Pereira, F. and Sheiber, S. "Prolog and Natural-Language Analysis,"
Center for the Study of Language and Information, 1987.
Probabilistic Parsing:
Ted Briscoe and John Carroll, "Generalised Probabilistic LR Parsing of
Natural Language (Corpora) with Unification-based Grammars",
University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Technical Report Number
224, 1991.
Zhi Biao Wu, Loke Soo Hsu, and Chew Lim Tan, "A Survey of Statistical
Approaches to Natural Language Processing", Technical report TRA4/92,
Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, National
University of Singapore, 1992
Natural Language Understanding:
Dyer, M. "In-Depth Understanding: A Computer Model of Integrated
Processing for Narrative Comprehension," MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1983.
Aravind Joshi, Bonnie Webber and Ivan Sag, eds. "Elements of Discourse
Understanding", Cambridge University Press, New York, 1981.
Cohen, P. R., Morgan, J. and Pollack, M., editors, "Intentions in
Communication", MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990.
Natural Language Interfaces:
Raymond C. Perrault and Barbara J. Grosz, "Natural Language
Interfaces", Annual Review of Computer Science, volume 1, J.F. Traub,
editor, pages 435-452, Annual Reviews Inc., Palo Alto, CA, 1986.
Natural Language Generation:
McKeown, Kathleen R. and Swartout, William R., "Language
Generation and Explanation", in Zock, M. and Sabah, G.,
editors, Advances in Natural Language Generation, Volume 1, Pages
1-51, Ablex Publishing Company, Norwood, NJ, 1988. (Overview of
the state of the art in natural language generation.)
Mann, W. & S. Thompson. Rhetorical Structure Theory: a theory of
text organization.
Speech:
Ronnie W. Smith and D. Richard Hipp, "Spoken Natural Language
Dialog Systems: A Practical Approach", Oxford University Press,
ISBN #0-19-509187-6
John Allen, Sharon Hunnicut and Dennis H. Klatt, "From Text to Speech:
The MITalk System", Cambridge University Press, 1987. [Synthesis,
precursor of DECtalk.]
Frank Fallside and William A. Woods (editors), "Computer Speech Processing"
Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
X. D. Huang, Y. Ariki and M. A. Jack, "Hidden Markov Models for Speech
Recognition", Edinburgh University Press, 1990. [Analysis]
A. Nejat Ince (editor), "Digital Speech Processing: Speech Coding,
Synthesis, and Recognition", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston,
1992. [Analysis and Synthesis]
Kai-Fu Lee, "Automatic Speech Recognition: The Development of the
SPHINX System", Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, MA, 1989. [Analysis]
Douglas O'Shaughnessy, "Speech Communication: Human and Machine"
Addison-Wesley, MA, 1987. [Analysis and Synthesis]
Lawrence R. Rabiner and Ronald W. Schafer, "Digital Processing of
Speech Signals", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1978.
[Analysis and Synthesis]
Lawrence R. Rabiner and Biing-Hwang Juang, "Fundamentals of Speech
Recognition", Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1993.
ISBN 0-13-015157-2. [Analysis]
Ronald W. Schafer and John D. Markel (editors), "Speech Analysis",
IEEE Press, New York, 1979. [Analysis]
Alex Waibel and Kai-Fu Lee (editors), "Readings in Speech Recognition"
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1990, 680 pages.
ISBN 1-55860-124-4, $49.95. [Analysis]
Alex Waibel, "Prosody and Speech Recognition", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988. [Analysis]
Machine Translation:
W. John Hutchins and Harold L. Somers, "An Introduction to Machine
Translation", Academic Press, San Diego, 1992. 362 pages, ISBN
0-123-62830-X.
Bonnie J. Dorr, "Machine Translation: A View from the Lexicon" MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA 1993. 432 pages, ISBN 0-262-04138-3.
Kenneth Goodman and Sergei Nirenburg., editors, "The KBMT Project: A
Case Study in Knowledge-Based Machine Translation", Morgan Kaufmann
Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1991. 331 pages, ISBN 1-558-60129-5, $34.95.
Arnold, D.J.; Balkan, L.; Lee Humphreys, R.; Meijer, S.; and Sadler, L.
(1994). Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide. NCC Blackwell.
The journal "Machine Translation" is the principle forum for
current research.
A review of MT systems on the market appeared in BYTE 18(1), January 1993.
Reversible Grammars:
Tomek Strzalkowski, editor, "Reversible Grammar in Natural Language
Processing", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Reversible Grammar in Natural
Language Processing, UC Berkeley, 1991. (See especially Remi
Zajac's paper.)
Statistical Processing:
Eugene Charniak, "Statistical Language Learning", MIT Press, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1993, 170 pages.
Categorial Grammar (CG):
M. Moortgat, "Categorial Investigations. Logical and Linguistic
Aspects of the Lambek Calculus", Groningen-Amsterdam Studies in
Semantics:9, Foris, Dordrecht, Holland, 1988.
Richard T. Oehrle, Emmon Bach and Deirdre Wheeler, "Categorial
Grammars and Natural Language Structures", Studies in Linguistics
and Philosophy:32, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1988.
Mary McGee Wood, "Categorial Grammars", Linguistic Theory Guides,
Routledge, London, 1993.
Dependency Grammar:
Igor' Aleksandrovich Mel'cuk, "Dependency syntax : theory and
practice", State University Press of New York, 1987.
Functional Grammar (aka Systemic Grammar):
Michael A. K. Halliday, "An Introduction to Functional Grammar",
Edward Arnold, London, 1985.
Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG):
Gerald Gazdar, Ewan Klein, Geoffrey Pullum and Ivan Sag,
"Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar", Oxford:Blackwell, 1985.
Government and Binding (GB):
Noam Chomsky, Lectures on government and binding, Foris Publications
1981.
Vivian J. Cook, "Chomsky's Universal Grammar: An Introduction", Basil
Blackwell Publisher, New York, 1988, 201 pages.
Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman, "An Introduction to Language",
Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, 4th edition, 1988, 474 pages.
Liliane M.V. Haegeman, "Introduction to Government and Binding
Theory", Basil Blackwell Publishers, Oxford, 1991, 618 pages.
Geoffrey C. Horrocks, "Generative Grammar", Longman, London, 1987,
339 pages.
Andrew Radford, "Transformational Grammar: A First Course",
Cambridge University Press, New York, 1988, 625 pages.
Stabler, E.P. (1992). The Logical Approach to Syntax. Cambridge,
Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1992.
Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG):
Carl Pollard and Ivan Sag, "Information-based Syntax and Semantics",
Stanford:CSLI, University of Chicago Press, 1987.
Pollard, Carl and Ivan A. Sag. 1994. Head-Driven Phrase Structure
Grammar. Chicago: University of Chicago Press and Stanford: CSLI
Publications.
Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG):
Joan Bresnan (ed.), "The Mental Representation of Grammatical
Relations", Cambridge:MA, MIT Press, 1982.
Dalrymple, Kaplan, Maxwell & Zaenen, eds. (1995) `Formal Issues in
Lexical-Functional Grammar', CSLI Publications, Stanford CA
(distributed by Cambridge University Press)
Tree Adjoining Grammar (TAG):
A. Joshi, L. Levy and M. Takahasihi, "Tree Adjunct Grammars"
In: Journal of Computer and System Sciences 10:136-63, 1975.
A. Joshi, "An Introduction to Tree Adjoining Grammars"
In: Alexis Manaster-Ramer (ed.), "The Mathematics of Language",
Benjamins, Philadelphia, 1987.
Cognitive Grammar:
Ronald W. Langacker, "Foundations of cognitive grammar" Stanford
University Press, 1987.
Programming for NLP:
Pereira, Fernando C.N. and Shieber, Stuart "Prolog and Natural-Language
Analysis," Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford, CA
1987, 264 pp.
Gazdar, Gerald and Mellish, Christopher S., "Natural Language Processing in
Lisp: An Introduction to Computational Linguistics", Addison-Wesley,
Reading, Massachusetts, 1989. (There are three different editions
of the book, one for Lisp, one for Prolog, and one for Pop-11.)
Michael A. Covington, "Natural Language Processing for Prolog
Programmers", Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1994. ISBN
0-13-629213-5.
Peter Norvig. Paradigms of AI Programming
Bibliographies:
Gazdar, Gerald, Alex Franz, Karen Osborne, and Roger Evans (1987).
"Natural Language Processing in the 1980s: A Bibliography", Center for
the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) lecture notes no. 12, CSLI,
Stanford, CA, 240 pp.
Computational Morphology
Richard Sproat, Morphology and Computation, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1992.
Graeme D. Ritchie, Graham J. Russell, Allan W. Black, Stephen G. Pulman,
Computational Morphology, MIT Press, Cambridge/London, 1992.
Miscellaneous:
Austin, J.L. How to do things with words.
Searle, J. Speech acts.
Levinson, S. Pragmatics.
Ross, Don, and Dan Brink (eds.) (1994) "Research in Humanities Computing 3:
Selected Papers from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Tempe, Arizona, March 1991,"
Clarendon Press, Oxford, England.
Gazdar, Gerald, Franz, Alex, Osborne, Karen, and Evans, Roger,
"Natural Language Processing in the 1980s: A Bibliography",
Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) lecture notes
no. 12, CSLI, Stanford, CA, 1987, 240 pp.
_The Mulltilingual PC Directory_. By Ian Tresman. 254pp.
Stamford CT: Knowledge Computing Ltd.
Stefan Wermter, Hybrid connectionist natural language processing
Chapman & Hall Inc, 1995.
Connectionist approaches to natural language processing.
Edited by Ronan G. Reilly and Noel E. Sharky.
Earlsdale, 1992 ISBN 0-86377-179-3
_Natural Language Processing_. Ed. Fernando C.N. Pereira and
Barbara J. Grosz. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, MA, and London:
The MIT Press, 1994. Rptd from _Artificial Intelligence: An
International Journal_, Volume 63, Numbers 1-2 (1993).
_Research in Humanities Computing 1: Selected Papers
from the ALLC/ACH Conference, Toronto, June 1989_.
Ed. Ian Lancashire. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991.
Peter D. Smith, _An Introduction to Text Processing_.
Cambridge MA and London: The MIT Press, 1990.
ISBN 0-262-19299-3.
Computer processing of natural language
Author Gilbert K Krulee
published Prentice Hall
ISBN 0-13-610299-3
Sadock, J. Toward a linguistic theory of speech acts.
Vanderveken, D. & J. Searle. Meaning and speech acts. (2 vols.)
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[21] Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence
A GUIDE TO COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS ARTICLES IN
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2nd Edition
Stuart C. Shapiro (editor) (John Wiley & Sons, 1992)
compiled by:
William J. Rapaport
Department of Computer Science
and Center for Cognitive Science
State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY 14260
rapa...@cs.buffalo.edu
AUTHOR TITLE PAGES
Volume 1:
Bookman, L. A.,
& Alterman, R. Analog Semantic Features 27-28
Alvarado, S. J. Argument Comprehension 30-52
Kucera, H. Brown Corpus 128-130
Srihari, S. N.,
& Hull, J. J. Character Recognition 138-150
Ballard, B.,
& Jones, M. Computational Linguistics 203-224
Hardt, S. L. Conceptual Dependency 259-265
Hindle, D. Deep Structure 328-330
Ingria, R.;
Boguraev, B.;
& Pustejovsky,J. Dictionary/Lexicon 341-365
Scha, R.;
Bruce, B. C.;
& Polanyi,L. Discourse Understanding 365-379
Tennant, H. Ellipsis 445-446
Novak, V. Fuzzy Logic: Applications to Natural Language 515-521
Woods, W. A. Grammar, Augmented Transition Network 552-563
Bruce, B.,
& Moser, M. G. Grammar, Case 563-570
Gazdar, G. Grammar, Generalized Phrase Structure 570-573
Joshi, A. K. Grammar, Phrase Structure 573-580
Burton, R. Grammar, Semantic 580-583
Bateman, J. A. Grammar, Systemic 583-592
Mallery, J. C.;
Hurwitz, R.;
& Duffy,G. Hermeneutics 596-611
Hill, J. C. Language Acquisition 761-772
Fass, D.,
& Pustejovsky, J. Lexical Decomposition 806-812
Pustejovsky, J. Lexical Semantics 812-819
Volume 2:
Nagao, M. Machine Translation 898-902
Klavans, J. L.,
& Tzoukermann, E. Morphology 963-972
McDonald, D. D. Natural-Language Generation 983-997
Carbonell, J. G.,
& Hayes, P. J. Natural-Language Understanding 997-1016
Petrick, S. Parsing 1099-1109
Small, S. L. Parsing, Word-Expert 1109-1116
Wilks, Y.,
& Fass, D. Preference Semantics 1183-1194
Cruse, D. A. Presupposition 1194-1201
Dyer, M. G.;
Cullingford, R. E.;
& Alvarado, S. J. Scripts 1443-1460
Sowa, J. F. Semantic Networks 1493-1511
Devlin, K. J. Situation Theory and Situation Semantics 1541-1547
Briscoe, E. J. Speech Recognition 1553-1559
Norvig, P. Story Analysis 1568-1576
Alterman, R. Text Summarization 1579-1587
Sparck Jones, K. Thesaurus 1605-1613
Knight, K. Unification 1630-1636
Additional articles from the 1st edition (1987):
Coelho, H. Grammar, Definite Clause 339-342
Berwick, R. Grammar, Transformational 353-361
Newmeyer, F. J. Linguistics, Competence and Performance 503-508
Wilks, Y. Machine Translation 564-571
Tennant, H. Menu-Based Natural Language 594-597
Koskenniemi, K. Morphology 619-620
Bates, M. Natural-Language Interfaces 655-660
Riesbeck, C. K. Parsing, Expectation-Driven 696-701
Keyser, S. J. Phonemes 744-746
Webber, B. Question Answering 814-822
Smith, B. C. Self-Reference 1005-1010
Hirst, G. Semantics 1024-1029
Woods, W. Semantics, Procedural 1029-1031
Allen, J. F. Speech Acts 1062-1065
Allen, J. Speech Recognition 1065-1070
Allen, J. Speech Synthesis 1070-1076
Briscoe, E. J. Speech Understanding 1076-1083
Lehnert, W. G. Story Analysis 1090-1099
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[22] Machine Translation
Globalink, Inc
9302 Lee Highway
Fairfax, VA, 22031, USA
Tel: +1 703 273 5600
Fax: +1 703 273 3866
Archers Translation Services
203-205 Desborough Road
High Wycombe, Bucks., HP11 2QL, UK
Tel: +44 494 537755
Fax: +44 494 474001
Gesellschaft f|r multilinguale Systeme (GMS)
Balanstr. 57
81541 Munich, Germany
http://www.gmsmuc.de
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[23] What are the major accomplishments of the field (only up to 1987)
Note: This section is in a very preliminary stage.
Overall:
Chomsky (1957) Syntactic Structures
Weizenbaum (1966), ELIZA
Woods (1967), Procedural semantics
Thorne et al. and Woods (1968-70), ATNs
Winograd (1970), Shrdlu
Colby, Weber & Hilf, 1971; Colby, 1975, PARRY
Wilks (1972), Preference semantics
Woods et al. (1972), LSNLIS / Lunar
Charniak (1972), Frames and demons
Wilks (1973), Stanford machine translation project
Montague (1973) IL semantics (Montague Grammar) in PTQ
Grosz (1977), Focus in task-oriented dialogues
Marcus (1977), Deterministic parsing
Davey (1978)
Cohen, Phil (1979), Planning speech acts
Allen (1980), Understanding speech acts
McDonald (1980), MUMBLE
Heim/Kamp (1981) Discourse Representation Theory
McKeown (1982), TEXT
Appelt (1982), KAMP (Integration of Functional Grammar with Discourse Plans)
Shieber (1984) Noncontextfreeness of NL syntax proven
[note from Lillian Lee:
Culy probably deserves co-credit w/Shieber for the non-CFness of
NLs (see Pullum, "Footloose and Context-Free"). Although Pullum
says there was an even earlier argument given in Dutch (don't have
the article, but it's Pullum's "Nobody goes around at LSA meetings
offering odds").]
Pollack (1986), Plan inference
Mann & Thompson (1987), Rhetorical Structure Theory
Conceptual Dependency:
Schank (1969), Conceptual Dependency
Schank, Riesbeck, Rieger, Goldman (1975), MARGIE
Cullingford (1979), SAM
Wilensky (1979), PAM
DeJong (1980), FRUMP
Lebowitz (1980), IPP
Dyer (1982), BORIS
Lytinen (1986), MOPTRANS
Hovy (1986), PAULINE
Ram (1989), AQUA
Dehn (1989), AUTHOR/STARSHIP
Martin (1986) Direct Memory Access Parsing (DMAP)
Fitzgerald (1995) Indexed Concept Parsing
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[24] Publishers
24.1. MIT Press
http://www-mitpress.mit.edu/
24.2. Elsevier
http://www.elsevier.nl/
24.3. Kluwer
http://www.wkap.nl
24.4. Addison Wesley
http://www.aw.com/
24.5. Cambridge University Press
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk/
24.6. CSLI, Stanford
http://www-csli.stanford.edu/publications/
24.7. Springer Verlag
http://www.springer.de/
24.8. University of Chicago Press
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/
24.9. Academic Press
http://www.apnet.com/
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[25] Credits
Large parts of the answers to Q. 10, 11, 14, and 20 come from Mark
Kantrowitz's comp.ai FAQ. Q.2 is due to Hans Uszkoreit, Q.21 comes from
William Rapaport and Stuart Shapiro. Jan Daciuk compiled most of Q. 24.
Partial list of contributors (in alphabetical order):
Avery Andrews anda...@pretty.anu.edu.au
Paul Buitelaar pa...@zag.cs.brandeis.edu
Charles Brendan Callaway theo...@cs.utexas.edu
Russell Collingham R.J.Col...@durham.ac.uk
Jan Daciuk jan...@pg.gda.pl
Robert Dale rd...@microsoft.com
Mary Dalrymple dalr...@parc.xerox.com
Barbara di Eugenio dieu...@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Dan Fass fa...@cs.sfu.ca
John Fry f...@Prosit.Stanford.EDU
Joshua Goodman goo...@das.harvard.edu
Malcolm Grandis Mal...@celtic.demon.co.uk
Graeme Hirst g...@cs.toronto.ca
Eduard Hovy ho...@isi.edu
Mark Kantrowitz mkant+...@cs.cmu.edu
Stefan Langer sla...@mic.dundee.ac.uk
Alberto Lavelli lav...@irst.it
Lillian Lee ll...@CS.Cornell.EDU
John McNaught jo...@ccl.umist.ac.uk
David Pautler david-...@usa.net
Fred Popowich popo...@cs.sfu.ca
Ashwin Ram ash...@cc.gatech.edu
Daniel Radzinski d...@tovna.co.il
William J. Rapaport rapa...@cs.buffalo.edu
David Reitter d...@gmx.de
JRice jr...@texterity.com
Hinrich Schuetze schu...@Sante.Stanford.EDU
Stuart Shapiro sha...@cs.buffalo.edu
Jakob Sommer ja...@isp.his.se
Kevin Thomas kev...@cdplus.com
R. M. Thomas rmth...@sciolus.cistron.nl
Hans Uszkoreit uszk...@coli.uni-sb.de
Gertjan van Noord vann...@let.rug.nl
Ellen Voorhees el...@amazon.ncsl.nist.gov
Jean Veronis Jean.V...@newsup.univ-mrs.fr
Carl Vogel Carl....@cs.tcd.ie
Phil Woodland p...@eng.cam.ac.uk
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