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From: goldberg@russell.STANFORD.EDU (Jeffrey Goldberg)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.ai
Subject: Re: NLP bibliography:  Book and EMail Service announcement
Summary: Oops, you're right.  Bad title.
Message-ID: <1537@russell.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 10 Jan 88 01:30:59 GMT
References: <1499@russell.STANFORD.EDU> <710@zippy.eecs.umich.edu>
Reply-To: goldberg@russell.UUCP (Jeffrey Goldberg)
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In article <710@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (David West) writes:
>In article <1499@russell.STANFORD.EDU> goldberg@russell.UUCP (Jeffrey Goldberg) writes:
>>Book Announcement:   [...]
>>%T  Natural Language Processing in the 1980's - A Bibliography   [...]
>>%S  CSLI Lecture Notes   [...]
>>Publication date: Dec 1987

>Am I the only person of the opinion that, while a title like this is clearly
>ok in a relatively ephemeral context, such as an actual lecture handout, it is 
>potentially seriously misleading in a more permanent context, e.g. as the
>title of a *book* which will presumably be consulted after the 1980s are over?
>One hopes that work of significance in NLP will occur in 1988 and 1989.

The title is unfortunate, but let me add that future editions may
be produced depending on how well this one does.  (The authors and
I would like to see more editions, but the publisher and
distributors need to see these move.)  The online bibliography,
accessible by EMail, will be updated (although the current one is
still the one that is in the book).

The original plan was to produce these annually and more cheaply
than we have managed.

The reason that this appears in a series called "lecture notes" is
historical and too dull to go into.  It was originally intended as
a tech report, I believe.

Anyway, I will pass your note on to the authors.  And maybe future
editions will bear a more accurate title.
-- 
Jeff Goldberg         Internet: goldberg@russell.stanford.edu