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Some Points in a Time
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This article offers a personal perspective on the development of language and information processing over the last half century, focusing on the use of statistical methods. Introduced, with computers, in the 1950s, these have not always been highly regarded, but were revived in the 1990s. They have proved effective in more ways than might have been expected, and encourage new thinking about what language and information processing involve.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Jones, K. S.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jones, Karen Spärck
- Venue
- Computational Linguistics
- Publisher
- MIT Press - Journals
- Published
- 2005-03
- Volume
- 31
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-14
- ISSN
- 0891-2017 (ISSN-L)
- 1530-9312
- OpenAlex
- W2063795592
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 17
- Citations by year
- 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1
- FWCI
- 1.05
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Computational Linguistics (publishedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Historical Linguistics and Language Studies
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Literature and Literary Theory › Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Keywords
- statistical methods in linguistics, history of computational linguistics, language processing, information processing, 1950s, 1990s
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