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About this Book

The first edition of this handbook appeared in 2000, but the project that resulted in that volume in fact began 4 years earlier, in mid-1996. When Hermann Moisl, Harold Somers, and I started planning the content of the book, the field of natural language processing was less than 10 years into what some might call its “statistical revolution.” It was still early enough that there were occasional signs of friction between some of the “old guard,” who hung on to the symbolic approaches to natural language processing that they had grown up with, and the “young turks,” with their new-fangled statistical processing techniques, which just kept gaining ground.