Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXV

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2. The Task of Natural Language Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Natural Language Processing: A Historical Review

      • Karen Sparck Jones

      Pages 3-16

   3. On Getting a Computer to Listen

      • Jane Robinson

      Pages 17-19

   4. Utterance and Objective: Issues in Natural Language Communication

      • Barbara Grosz

      Pages 21-39

   5. On the Proper Place of Semantics in Machine Translation

      • Margaret King

      Pages 41-57

   6. Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data

      • Gary G. Hendrix, Earl D. Sacerdoti, Daniel Sagalowicz, Jonathan Slocum

      Pages 59-107

   7. User-Needs Analysis and Design Methodology for an Automated Document Generator

      • K. Kukich, K. McKeown, J. Shaw, J. Robin, J. Lim, N. Morgan et al.

      Pages 109-115

3. Building Computational Lexicons

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117

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   2. Machine-Readable Dictionaries and Computational Linguistics Research

      • Branimir Boguraev

      Pages 119-154

   3. Research Toward the Development of a Lexical Knowledge Base for Natural Language Processing

      • Robert A. Amsler

      Pages 155-175

   4. Discovering Relationships among Word Senses

      • Roy J. Byrd

      Pages 177-189

   5. Machine Readable Dictionary as a Source of Grammatical Information

      • Eva Hajičová, Alexandr Rosen

      Pages 191-199

   6. The IIT Lexical Database: Dream and Reality

      • Sumali Pin-Ngern Conlon, Joanne Dardaine, Agnes D’Souza, Martha Evens, Sherwood Haynes, Jong-Sun Kim et al.

      Pages 201-225

   7. Visions of the Digital Library: Views on Using Computational Linguistics and Semantic Nets in Information Retrieval

      • Judith L. Klavans

      Pages 227-236

   8. Anatomy of a Verb Entry: from Linguistic Theory to Lexicographic Practice

      • Beryl T. Atkins, Judy Kegl, Beth Levin

      Pages 237-266

   9. Issues for Lexicon Building

      • Nicoletta Calzolari

      Pages 267-281

   10. Outline of a Model for Lexical Databases

       • Nancy Ide, Jacques Le Maitre, Jean Véronis

       Pages 283-320

   11. Construction-Based MT Lexicons

       • Lori Levin, Sergei Nirenburg

       Pages 321-338

   12. Dependency-Based Grammatical Information in the Lexicon

       • Petr Sgall

       Pages 339-344

With this volume in honour of Don Walker, Linguistica Computazionale con­ tinues the series of special issues dedicated to outstanding personalities who have made a significant contribution to the progress of our discipline and maintained a special collaborative relationship with our Institute in Pisa. I take the liberty of quoting in this preface some of the initiatives Pisa and Don Walker have jointly promoted and developed during our collaboration, because I think that they might serve to illustrate some outstanding features of Don's personality, in particular his capacity for identifying areas of potential convergence among the different scientific communities within our field and establishing concrete forms of coop­ eration. These initiatives also testify to his continuous and untiring work, dedi­ cated to putting people into contact and opening up communication between them, collecting and disseminating information, knowledge and resources, and creating shareable basic infrastructures needed for progress in our field. Our collaboration began within the Linguistics in Documentation group of the FID and continued in the framework of the !CCL (International Committee for Computational Linguistics). In 1982 this collaboration was strengthened when, at CO LING in Prague, I was invited by Don to join him in the organization of a series of workshops with participants of the various communities interested in the study, development, and use of computational lexica.

• Parsing
• Syntax
• Text
• Verb
• communication
• computational linguistics
• corpus
• heuristics
• intelligence
• knowledge base
• language
• linguistics
• machine translation
• natural language
• semantics

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