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From: credmond@orchid.waterloo.edu (Chris Redmond)
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Subject: Re: NLP bibliography:  Book and EMail Service announcement
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Date: 11 Jan 88 21:29:51 GMT
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In article <710@zippy.eecs.umich.edu> dwt@zippy.eecs.umich.edu (David West) writes:
>>%T  Natural Language Processing in the 1980's - A Bibliography   [...]
>>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.

Oh, I dunno.  Anybody who seriously consults a bibliography is going to
check its date along with other technical information (such as its publisher
and editor) to see how reliable and comprehensive it is.

Besides, we all know that "the 1980's" are over: the decade ended one
Monday last October, with the stock market crash.  We are now living in
the 1990's.  

(Exercise: give the dates on which the following decades began.
The 1940's:  7 December 1941 (in the US)
             3 September 1939 (elsewhere)
The 1950's:  
The 1960's: 22 November 1963
The 1970's: 
The 1980's:
)