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Title: Computational Linguistics by Ralph Grishman, Branimir Boguraev, Steven Bird, Don HIndle, Martin Kay, David McDonald, Hans Uszkoreit ISBN: 0-521-31038-5 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.00

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Summary: A nice and concise introduction to rule-based NLP
Comment: Grishman offers a readable account of the issues faced by Natural Language Processing research. The discussion is bolstered by examples from some of the more interesting NLP systems. These examples are shallow, permitting a light read and keeping the focus of the book on linguistic issues. The majority of the book covers standard syntactic and semantic parsing techniques, while discourse analysis, anaphora resolution and text generation receive only a quick treatment. Although some attention is paid to alternative approaches, Grisham chooses to phrase most of his discussion in transformational terms.

The most serious weakness of this introduction is its age. Certain assertions, such as the claim that "a finite-state network (regular grammar) is unsuitable" for language processing (p. 18) are seen in hindsight as questionable. Further, the current trend towards statistical analysis is unaddressed.

Warning: some understanding of predicate calculus is necessary to follow the sections on semantic analysis.