Publikation
Linguistic Issues in Language Technology (LiLT) -- Special Issue on the Interaction between Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: Virtuous, Vicious or Vacuous?
Timothy Baldwin; Valia Kordoni
CSLI, 2011.
Zusammenfassung
In its infancy, computational linguistics drew heavily on theoretical linguistics.
There have been numerous examples of co-development successes
between computational and theoretical linguistics over the years
(e.g. syntactic theories (Gazdar et al., 1985, Pollard and Sag, 1994,
Steedman, 2000, Bresnan, 2001, Kallmeyer, 2010) discourse processing
(Grosz and Sidner, 1986, Walker et al., 1998) and language resource development
(Marcus et al., 1993, Fellbaum, 1998, Prasad et al., 2008)),
and significant crossover with other areas of linguistics such as lexicography
(Boguraev and Briscoe, 1989, Wilks et al., 1996), psycholinguistics
(Crocker, 1996, Dijkstra and de Smedt, 1996, Keller, 2001) and
corpus linguistics (McEnery and Wilson, 2001, Sampson, 2001, Meyer,
2002).
Throughout the history of the field, however, there has always been a
subset of computational linguistics that has largely distanced itself from
theoretical linguistics, perhaps most famously in the field of machine
translation (MT) where there is relatively little in most modern-day MT
systems that a linguist would identify with. In the current climate of
hard-core empiricism within computational linguistics it is appropriate
to reflect on where we have come from and where we are headed relative
to the various other fields of linguistics.
Our purpose in this special issue is partly to reflect on the status
quo and, in the process, identify potential areas where greater crossover
between the fields of linguistics and computational linguistics can and
perhaps should occur. It is also, however, to highlight sub-areas of computational
linguistics where that crossover is happening, and can be
seen to have enhanced the linguistic and computational linguistic impact
of the research.
This special issue stems from an EACL 2009 workshop organised
by the authors, somewhat provocatively titled Interaction between
Linguistics and Computational Linguistics: Virtuous, Vicious or Vacuous?.
It draws together extended versions of papers presented at the
workshop, in addition to invited contributions from both linguists and
computational linguists.