When dealing with language, (machine) learning can take many different faces, of which the most important are those concerned with learning languages and grammars from data. Questions in this context have been at the intersection of the fields of inductive inference and computational linguistics for the past fifty years. To go back to the pioneering work, Chomsky (1955; 1957) and Solomonoff (19...

ive summarization approaches use information extraction, ontological information, information fusion, and compression. Automatically generated abstracts (abstractive summaries) moves the summarization field from the use of purely extractive methods to the generation of abstracts that contain sentences not found in any of the input documents and can synthesize information across sources. An abst...

Semi-supervised learning is by no means an unfamiliar concept to natural language processing researchers. Labeled data has been used to improve unsupervised parameter estimation procedures such as the EM algorithm and its variants since the beginning of the statistical revolution in NLP (e.g., Pereira and Schabes (1992)). Unlabeled data has also been used to improve supervised learning procedur...

0 Preface E-Learning is more and more becoming a commodity in all areas of education ranging from curricular learning at schools and universities via further education and learning on the job to social and game-based learning in spare time activities. At the same time, research on ELearning is scattered across different research disciplines, being often a matter of single initiatives and person...

Processing of the English language is overwhelmingly mainstream in computational linguistics. This text claims that this situation is neither healthy for computational linguistics nor theoretically tenable.

For those who, like me, have been associated with these meetings since tile beginning, it is a privilege and an enormous pleasure to return to France, and to u conference organized under the auspices of the University of Grenoble. it is too little recognized how much the field of comlmtational linguistics owes to this country and to that university. My predecessor, the second chairman of the In...

The history of literary and linguistic text processing by computers can be traced back to the late-50s in West Germany. After a short review of the development of computational linguistics in West Germany, this paper will be devoted mainly to those present traits in the field which appear to combine promising components likely to become seminal in the future for a wide range of disciplines in t...