Natural language parsing: Psychological, computational, and theoretical perspectives. Edited by David R. Dowty, Lauri Karttunen, and Arnold M. Zwicky Cambridge: University Press, 1985. Pp. xiii, 413. $49.50.

Abstract

This book is the first volume in a series, Studies in Natural Language Processing, launched in 1984 under the sponsorship of the Association for Computational Linguistics. Aimed at a very wide audience, with back-ground in formal linguistics, psycholinguistics, cogni-tive psychology or artificial intelligence, the series ad-dresses a number of issues in the growing interdisciplinary field of computational linguistics. As a representative of these concerns, the inaugural volume succeeds quite well in setting the tone, by demonstrat-ing the range of treatments that the notion of parsing has received from the perspectives of formal linguistics, computational analysis of language, and psycholinguis-tics. The book is not yet another workshop or conference