Recent Trends in NLP (CL)

• Previously: AI, full understanding

• Current: Corpus-based, Statistical

  • ACL proceedings: from 3 corpus-based papers in 1991 to at least half in 1996
  • Stat NLP was tried long ago (Z. Harris)

• Simple Often Wins

  • Echoes results in IR

• Interesting direction:

  • Statistics + Linguistics (Klavans & Resnik 96)

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