Introduction to the Special Issue on Natural Language and Learning Machines
Dan Roth, Roberto Basili · Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics · 2017
1. IntroductionThe interaction between machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) research underlies most of the progress made in NLP for the last few decades (Cardie and Mooney 1999; Fung and Roth 2005). Machine Learning has been the common framework for the birth and development of most paradigms, discoveries and achievements in statistical natural language processing. At the international level the AAAI Fall symposiums in 1990 (Jacobs 1990) and 1992 (Goldman 1992) and the IBM ...