A recurrent event in almost every branch of science is the attempt of renowned experts from the field to look into its future. For the area of computational linguistics (CL) David Waltz, in 1982, has made the last assessment of the current state and future perspectives of natural language processing (NLP) research that I am aware of 1. The book under review shares that predictive concern, ten years after. The intention behind- Challenges in Natural Language Processing 1 is to explore the future shape of CL and to outline the most significant problems and challenges this field will face in the current decade. The papers it contains reflect the discussions from a symposium on Future Directions in Natural Language Processing which was held at Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN), in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from November 29, 1989 to December 1, 1989 2 . Access to this symposium was restricted to invited participants (people from government, industry, and academia, altogether thirty-six symposium attendees). Speakers were encouraged to present both recently completed and speculative work, and to focus on topics that they considered to have the most impact on the field in the coming (now, the current) decade. Their perception of unsolved problems of long standing and presentation of new possibilities was intended as a contribution to long-range planning by funding agencies, research groups, academic institutions, and others interested in CL. Except for the two contributions by the editors, which directly meet the intentions laid out above, the book contains an almost arbitrary collection of papers which could have been written on any other occasion, too. They cover highly specialized research topics but are uncommitted to in-depth deliberations concerning the future of CL. Therefore, I doubt that the targeted audience - even the domain specialists - will be focused on the field's perspectives after having read the published symposium contributions. In the strict sense, this book fails to accomplish its advisory goals. As a thematically entirely open collection of CL papers, it has its merits, nevertheless.
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Book review: Challenges in Natural Language Processing Madeleine Bates & Ralph M. Weischedel (Eds.) (Cambridge University Press 1993)
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