Current Issues in Computational Linguistics: In Honour of Don Walker

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Introduction. Donald Walker: a Remembrance. Section 1: The Task of Natural Language Processing. Natural Language Processing: an Historical Review K. Sparck Jones. On Getting a Computer to Listen J. Robinson. Utterance and Objective: Issues in Natural Language Communication B. Grosz. On the Proper Place of Semantics in Machine Translation M. King. Developing a Natural Language Interface to Complex Data G.G. Hendrix, E.D. Sacerdoti. User-Needs Analysis and Design Methodology for an Automated Document Generator K. Kukich, K. McKeown, J. Shaw, J. Robin, J. Lim, N. Morgan, J. Philips. Section 2: Building Computational Lexicons. Machine-Readable Dictionaries and Computational Linguistics Research B. Boguraev. Research Toward the Development of a Lexical Knowledge Base for Natural Language Processing R.A. Amsler. Discovering Relationships Among Word Senses R.J. Byrd. Machine Readable Dictionary as a Source of Grammatical Information E. Hajicova, A. Rosen. The ITT Lexical Database: Dream and Reality S. Pin-Ngern Conlon. Visions of the Digital Library: Views on Using Computational Linguistics and Semantic Nets in Information Retrieval J.L. Klavans. Anatomy of a Verb Entry: from Linguistic Theory to Lexicographic Practice B.T. Atkins, J. Kegl, B. Levin. Issues for Lexicon Building N. Calzolari. Outline of a Model for Lexical Databases N. Ide, J. le Maitre, J. Veronts. Construction-Based MT Lexicons L. Levin, S. Nirenburg. Dependency-Based Grammatical Information in the Lexicon P. Sgall. Semantics in the Brain's Lexicon -- Some Preliminary Remarks on its Epistemology H. Schnelle. Section 3: The Acquisition and Use of LargeCorpora. The Ecology of Language D.E. Walker. Representativeness in Corpus Design D. Biber. The Text Encoding Initiative C.M. Sperberg-McQueen. Discrimination Decisions for 100,000 Dimensional W.A. Gale, K.W. Church, D. Yarowsky. Acquisition and Exploitation of Textual Resources for NLP S. Armstrong-Warwick. The Center for Electronic Texts in the Humanities S. Hockey. Design Principles for Electronic Textual Resources: Investigating Users and Uses of Scholarly Information N.J. Belkin. Section 4: Topics, Methods and Formalisms in Syntax, Semantics and Pragmatics. Evaluating English Sentences in a Logical Model J. Friedman, D.B. Moran, D.S. Warren. Recovering Implicit Information M.S. Palmer, D.A. Dahl, R.J. Schiffman, L. Hirschman, M. Linebarger, J. Downing. Flexible Generation: Taking the User into Account C.L. Paris, V.O. Mittal. Two Principles of Parse Preference J.R. Hobbs, J. Bear. UD, yet Another Unification Device R. Johnson, M. Rosner. Varieties of Heuristics in Sentence Parsing M. Nagao. Some Recent Trends in Natural Language Processing A.K. Joshi. Stone Soup and the French Room Y. Wilks.