Review of Natural Language Processing in R.A. Wilson and F.C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences

Abstract

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is the first encyclopediain cognitive sciences—a web-navigable resource with invaluable information and severalhundred links to related resources. The material provided therein is thorough andvery clearly presented by the leading scientists in each area. This is one of the mostcomprehensive resources in cognitive science to date. It will serve as a teaching andresearch guide that users may frequently refer to for important definitions, backgroundinformation, and citations to relevant literature.This review covers areas relevant to Natural Language Processing (NLP), in particular,the entries entitled “Natural Language Processing” (James Allen), “ComputationalLinguistics” (Aravind Joshi), “Generation” and “Machine Translation” (both by EduardHovy), “Computational Lexicons” (James Pustejovsky), and “Statistical Techniques”(Eugene Charniak). I will also address issues concerning the use of MITECS as an online,web-navigable document.