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Editorial Artificiallntelligence Review 6, 327--331, 1992. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING The survey papers in this issue cover a wide variation of the problems which arise in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The aim of this special issue of Artificial Intelligence Review is to provide survey papers which start with one end of the spectrum of the problems in NLP and go right down to the other end. In fact Mc Kevitt et al.'s paper concentrates on the level of processing known traditionally as "pragrnatics" while Bill Keller's paper concentrates on a level which traditionally has been called "syntax." Pragmatics is more concerned with the intention or why a given natural language utterance has been made while syntax is more concerned with structure or how an utterance is being made. Manfred Stede's paper is concerned with how these issues come to play in actual implemented systems which attempt to process real-world natural language. NLP has come a long way since early work in the 1960s. Most of the work in the 60s concentrated on syntax processing and many believed that if the problem of syntax could be solved then the problem of NLP would be solved (see Chomsky 1965). However, Yorick Wilks and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Artificial Intelligence Review Springer Journals

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Mc Kevitt, Paul
Artificial Intelligence Review , Volume 6 (4) – May 24, 2004
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Artificiallntelligence Review 6, 327--331, 1992. NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING The survey papers in this issue cover a wide variation of the problems which arise in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The aim of this special issue of Artificial Intelligence Review is to provide survey papers which start with one end of the spectrum of the problems in NLP and go right down to the other end. In fact Mc Kevitt et al.'s paper concentrates on the level of processing known traditionally as "pragrnatics" while Bill Keller's paper concentrates on a level which traditionally has been called "syntax." Pragmatics is more concerned with the intention or why a given natural language utterance has been made while syntax is more concerned with structure or how an utterance is being made. Manfred Stede's paper is concerned with how these issues come to play in actual implemented systems which attempt to process real-world natural language. NLP has come a long way since early work in the 1960s. Most of the work in the 60s concentrated on syntax processing and many believed that if the problem of syntax could be solved then the problem of NLP would be solved (see Chomsky 1965). However, Yorick Wilks and

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