"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing circa 2001
arXiv:cs/0304027
Abstract
A brief, general-audience overview of the history of natural language processing, focusing on data-driven approaches.Topics include "Ambiguity and language analysis", "Firth things first", "A 'C' change", and "The empiricists strike back".
To appear, National Research Council study on the Fundamentals of Computer Science. 7 pages