Last Words - published articles

Last Words

This page provides links to all the Last Words pieces that have appeared in CL. Last Words pieces offer a personal opinion or provocative perspective on some aspect of the field of computational linguistics. Contact the Editor directly if you are interested in submitting such a piece.

• Richard Sproat [2022] Boring Problems are Sometimes the Most Interesting Computational Linguistics Vol. 48, No. 2, Pages 483--490. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00439.
• Manaal Faruqui, Dilek Hakkani-Tur [2022] Revisiting the Boundary between ASR and NLU in the Age of Conversational Dialog Systems Computational Linguistics Vol. 48, No. 1, Pages 221--232. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00430.
• Ralph Weischedel, Elizabeth Boschee [2018] What Can Be Accomplished with the State of the Art in Information Extraction? A Personal View Computational Linguistics Vol. 44, No. 4, Pages 651--658. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00331.
• Paola Merlo [2018] Festina Lente: A Farewell from the Editor Computational Linguistics Vol. 44, No. 2, Pages 379--385. DOI 10.1162/coli_e_00320.
• Malvina Nissim, Lasha Abzianidze, Kilian Evang, Rob van der Goot, Hessel Haagsma, Barbara Plank, Martijn Wieling [2017] Sharing Is Caring: The Future of Shared Tasks Computational Linguistics Vol. 43, No. 4, Pages 897--904. DOI 10.1162/COLI_a_00304.
• Christopher D. Manning [2015] Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning Computational Linguistics Vol. 41, No. 4, Pages 701--707. DOI 10.1162/COLI_a_00239.
• Stefan Riezler [2014] On the Problem of Theoretical Terms in Empirical Computational Linguistics Computational Linguistics Vol. 40, No. 1, Pages 235--245. DOI 10.1162/COLI_a_00182.
• Karën Fort, Gilles Adda, K. Bretonnel Cohen [2011] Amazon Mechanical Turk: Gold Mine or Coal Mine? Computational Linguistics Vol. 37, No. 2, Pages 413--420. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00057.
• Inderjeet Mani [2011] Improving Our Reviewing Processes Computational Linguistics Vol. 37, No. 1, Pages 261--265. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00046.
• Nat Lang [2010] Are We Near the End of the Journal? Computational Linguistics Vol. 36, No. 4, Pages 817--821. DOI 10.1162/coli_a_00019.
• Richard Sproat [2010] Ancient Symbols, Computational Linguistics, and the Reviewing Practices of the General Science Journals Computational Linguistics Vol. 36, No. 3, Pages 586--594. DOI 10.1162/ coli_a_00011.
• Emiel Krahmer [2010] What Computational Linguists Can Learn from Psychologists (and Vice Versa) Computational Linguistics Vol. 36, No. 2, Pages 285--294. DOI 10.1162/coli.2010.36.2.36201.
• Stan Szpakowicz [2010] Failure is an Orphan (Let's Adopt) Computational Linguistics Vol. 36, No. 1, Pages 157--158. DOI 10.1162/coli.2010.36.1.36106.
• Shuly Wintner [2009] What Science Underlies Natural Language Engineering? Computational Linguistics Vol. 35, No. 4, Pages 641-644. DOI 10.1162/coli.2009.35.4.35409.
• Steven Bird [2009] Natural Language Processing and Linguistic Fieldwork Computational Linguistics Vol. 35, No. 3, Pages 469--474. DOI 10.1162/coli.35.3.469.
• Anja Belz [2009] That's Nice ... What Can You Do With It? Computational Linguistics Vol. 35, No. 1, Pages 111--118. DOI 10.1162/coli.2009.35.1.111.
• Robert Dale [2008] What's the Future for Computational Linguistics? Computational Linguistics Vol. 34, No. 4, Pages 621--624. DOI 10.1162/coli.2008.34.4.621.
• Ted Pedersen [2008] Empiricism Is Not a Matter of Faith. Computational Linguistics Vol. 34, No. 3, Pages 465--470. DOI 10.1162/coli.2008.34.3.465.
• Mark Steedman [2008] On Becoming a Discipline. Computational Linguistics Vol. 34, No. 1, Pages 137--144. DOI 10.1162/coli.2008.34.1.137.
• Bonnie Webber [2007] Breaking News: Changing Attitudes and Practices. Computational Linguistics Vol. 33, No. 4, Pages 607--611. DOI 10.1162/coli.2007.33.4.607.
• Karen Sparck Jones [2007] Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics? Computational Linguistics Vol. 33, No. 3, Pages 437--441. DOI 10.1162/coli.2007.33.3.437.
• Ehud Reiter [2007] The Shrinking Horizons of Computational Linguistics. Computational Linguistics Vol. 33, No. 2, Pages 283--287. DOI 10.1162/coli.2007.33.2.283.
• Adam Kilgarriff [2007] Googleology is Bad Science. Computational Linguistics Vol. 33, No. 1, Pages 147--151. DOI 10.1162/coli.2007.33.1.147.
• Annie Zaenen [2006] Mark-up Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Computational Linguistics Vol. 32, No. 4, 577--580. DOI 10.1162/coli.2006.32.4.577.
• Kenneth Church [2005] Reviewing the Reviewers. Computational Linguistics Vol. 31, No. 4, Pages 575--578. DOI 10.1162/089120105775299131.