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From: flanhart@diku.dk (Rene Andersen)
Subject: Re: Books on Intro. natural language processing
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 1994 12:02:24 GMT
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mcovingt@ai.uga.edu (Michael Covington) writes:

>NAME (hc_chu@pavo.concordia.ca) wrote:
>: Hi all!
>: I am learning an introductory course on natural language processing.
>: Any good books?ooks?

>Ralph Grishman, Computational Linguistics  (short)


I would strongly NOT recommend Grishman. I think it's outdated, boring
and completely without visions.  To Grishman NLP means Natural
Language Parsing.  It's fundamental view - that language is a prurely
formal (syntactic) phenomenon - doesn't bring us any further. But, off
course, it can be read as an intruction to parsing. But I don't think
it is fruitfull to consider it a book to give a proper account of the
state of art.


Best wishes

Ren'e Andersen
