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From: code@sphinx.uchicago.edu (paul robinson wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: English grammar (was Re: In layman's terms.)
Message-ID: <1839@sphinx.uchicago.edu>
Date: Wed, 27-May-87 18:24:34 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.1839
Posted: Wed May 27 18:24:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 30-May-87 05:11:13 EDT
References: <13263@watmath.UUCP> <1116@houdi.UUCP> <529@iscuva.ISCS.COM>
Reply-To: code@sphinx.UUCP (paul robinson wilson)
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Organization: U Chicago Computation Center
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Keywords: English, Backus-Naur Form, syntax.
Summary: A vote against long beginner articles, but for referring elsewhere

In article <529@iscuva.ISCS.COM> randyg@iscuva.UUCP (Randy Gordon) writes:
>
>There are two major "camps" of natural language techniques. 
>
>The "Old School" is the syntactic/transformational grammer types, which 
>[...]
>The "Young Turks" are the descendents of Schank's Conceptual Dependency
>theory, Sowa, Schank, etc. These generally treat semantics as secondary 
>to syntactics...
  Uh, I think it's the other way around (Schankians treat semantics as
primary), but it's a very important point.

The posting that started this exchange suggested intro articles for
beginners.  I don't think this is an appropriate place for that, since
any good articles are not going to be really short (translation: they'll
cost the net a lot of money).

However, it seems like an excellent idea to post references to good intro
material, both for beginners and for teachers of beginners.

So how about it?  Any references to good intro articles on NLP, especially
ones that clearly discuss both the syntax-first and integrated approaches?

(Also, is James Allen's new book good?)

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