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NATURAL LANGUAGE IN INFORMATION SCIENCE Perspectives and Directions for Research

Edited by: Donald E. Walker SRI International Hans Karlgren KVAL Institute for Information Martin Kay Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

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Results of a WORKSHOPON LINGUISTICS AND INFORMATION SICENCE Biskops-Arno, Sweden, 3-5 May 1976 Organized by the Committee on Linguistics in Documentation of the International Federation for Documentation and KVAL FID Publication 551
Skriptor, Stockholm, Sweden

© Skriptor AB, Stockholm, 1977. ISBN 91 7282 131-0 Printed in U.S.A. by B and P Printing. Fairfax, Virginia, 1977.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction Donald E. Walker, SRI

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The Organization and Conduct of the Workshop Donald E. Walker, SRI International Perspective Paper: Information Science F.W. Lancaster, University of Illinois Perspective Paper: Library Science Derek Austin, The British Library Perspective Paper: Quantitative Linguistics Wolf Moskovich, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Perspective Paper: Computational Linguistics Naomi Sager, New York University Perspective Paper: Linguistics Petr Sgall, Charles University Perspective Paper: Complex Semantic Information Processing Teun A. van Dijk, University of Amsterdam Perspective Paper: Terminology J. Goelschalckx, Commission of the European Communities Challenge Paper: Homeosemy -- On the Linguistics of Information Retrieval Hans K.irlgren, KVAL Institute for Information Science Linguistics and Information Science: After Five Years Karen Sparck Jones, Cambridge University Martin Kay, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center The Workshop Participants

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