Review of Natural Language Processing in R.A. Wilson and F.C. Keil (Eds.), The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (MITECS) is the first encyclopediain cognitive sciences—a web-navigable resource with invaluable information and several
hundred links to related resources. The material provided therein is thorough and
very clearly presented by the leading scientists in each area. This is one of the most
comprehensive resources in cognitive science to date. It will serve as a teaching and
research guide that users may frequently refer to for important definitions, background
information, and citations to relevant literature.
This review covers areas relevant to Natural Language Processing (NLP), in particular,
the entries entitled “Natural Language Processing” (James Allen), “Computational
Linguistics” (Aravind Joshi), “Generation” and “Machine Translation” (both by Eduard
Hovy), “Computational Lexicons” (James Pustejovsky), and “Statistical Techniques”
(Eugene Charniak). I will also address issues concerning the use of MITECS as an online,
web-navigable document.