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Brie¯y Noted ªGrammar inference, automata induction, ªOur volume has two goals. One is to and language acquisitionº by Rajesh G. present some recent results in active areas of Parekh and Vasant Honavar the three domains that converge in the new ªThe symbolic approach to ANN-based nat- ®eld. The other one is to celebrate the 50th ural language processingº by Michael Wit- birthday of Gheorghe PÆaun, who, from for- brock mal language theory, promoted the new re- ªThe subsymbolic approach to ANN-based natural language processingº by Georg search area and made seminal contributions Dorffner to it.... All the papers are contributed by ªThe hybrid approach to ANN-based natural Gheorghe PÆaun's collaborators, colleagues, language processingº by Stefan Wermter friends, and students in the ®ve continents, ªCharacter recognition with syntactic neural who wanted to show in this way their recog- networksº by Simon Lucas nition to him for his tremendous work. We ªCompressing texts with neural netsº by have collected 38 papers by 75 authors here. Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/coli/article-pdf/27/4/603/1797713/coli.2000.27.4.603b.pdf by guest on 29 September 2021 JÈurgen Schmidhuber and Stefan Heil (Another set of 38 papers by 65 authors will ªNeural architectures for information re- be published soon in the future.)ºÐFrom the trieval and database queryº by Chun- editors' preface Hsien Chen and Vasant Honavar ªText data miningº by Dieter Merkl ªText and discourse understanding: The DIS- Recent Advances in Natural Language CERN systemº by Risto Miikkulainen Processing II: Selected Papers from RANLP '97 Where Mathematics, Computer Science, Nicolas Nicolov and Ruslan Mitkov Linguistics, and Biology Meet: Essays (editors) in Honour of Gheorghe PÆaun (University of Sussex and University of Wol- verhampton) Carlos MartÂõn-Vide and Victor Mitrana (editors) Amsterdam: John Benjamins (Current issues (Rovira i Virgili University and University of in linguistic theory, volume 189), 2000, Bucharest) xi+422 pp; hardbound, ISBN 1-55619-966-X and 90-272-3695-X, $84.00 Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, xv+446 pp; hardbound, ISBN 0-7923-6693-X, $176.00, £112.00, D¯ 360.00 ªThis volume brings together [31] revised versions of a selection of papers presented at ªThere are not many scienti®c ®elds as in- the Second International Conference on `Re- terdisciplinary as formal language theory. In cent Advances in Natural Language Process- this volume, it is presented as the very inter- ing' (RANLP'97) held in Tzigov Chark, Bul- section point of Mathematics, Computer Sci- garia, 11±13 September 1997.ºÐFrom the edi- ence, Linguistics, and Biology. This book is a tors' foreword collection of papers which closely examines classical topics in computer science inspired Intelligent Help Systems for UNIX by formal languages, as well as showing new Stephen J. Hegner, Paul McKevitt, Peter concepts and problems motivated in linguis- Norvig, and Robert Wilensky (editors) tics and biology. The papers are organized (UmeÊa University, University of Ulster, into four sections: Grammars and Grammar NASA Ames Research Center, and Univer- Systems, Automata, Languages and Combi- sity of California, Berkeley) natorics, and Models of Molecular Comput- Reprinted from Arti®cial Intelligence Review, ing. They clearly prove the power, wealth, 14(1±5), 2000. and vitality of the theory nowadays and Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, sketch some trends for its future develop- 2001, xii+420 pp (no index); hardbound, ment. The volume is intended for an audi- ISBN 0-7923-6641-7, $190.00, £135.00, ence of computer scientists, computational –C220.00 linguists, theoretical biologists, and any other people interested in dealing with the prob- This collection of papers concerns arti®cial- lems and challenges of interdisciplinarity.ºÐ intelligence (AI) and cognitive-science tech- From the publisher's announcement, with minor niques applied to the problem of providing corrections help systems for the UNIX operating sys- 603.