History of Computational Linguistics

Overview

This page summarizes our work at Stanford on exploring the history of computational linguistics and also of our use of NLP tools to advance our understanding of the field by doing computational history.

People

NLP Group Members
- Ashton Anderson
- David Hall (now at UC Berkeley)
- Dan Jurafsky
- Adam Vogel
Participants

Video and Audio Interview Data

These audio and video recordings are from panels and interviews recorded in Martin Kay and Dan Jurafsky's 2011 course, "Linguistics 290: History of Computational Linguistics".

Audio of Fernando Pereira interviewed by Dan Jurafsky on Jan 21, 2011 on the origins of the AT&T finite state work (30 minutes); from Jurafsky and Kay 2011 class
Video of Panel Session on the History of Finite State Models in Lingusitics and Computational Linguistics on Jan 25, 2011, with Ron Kaplan, Lauri Karttunen, and Martin Kay, and questions from Dan Jurafsky and members of the Winter 2011 Linguistics 289 class (David Clausen, Nikhil Johri, Karen Shiells, Natalia Silveira, Adam Vogel)
Video of Panel Session on the History of Unification in Linguistics and Computational Linguistics on Feb 1, 2011, with Dan Flickinger, Ron Kaplan, Lauri Karttunen, Martin Kay, Gerald Penn, and Ivan Sag, and questions from Dan Jurafsky and members of the Winter 2011 Linguistics 289 class (David Clausen, Nikhil Johri, Karen Shiells, Natalia Silveira, Adam Vogel)

Course Materials and Collections of Historic Papers

Dan Jurafsky and Martin Kay's seminar on the history of computational linguistics, Linguistics 289, Winter 2011

Papers

These publications focus on NLP tools for doing a "computational history" of computational linguistics:

Ashton Anderson, Dan McFarland, and Dan Jurafsky. 2012. Towards a Computational History of the ACL: 1980-2008. In ACL 2012 Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries. [pdf, bib]
Adam Vogel, and Dan Jurafsky. 2012. He Said, She Said: Gender in the ACL Anthology. In ACL 2012 Workshop on Rediscovering 50 Years of Discoveries. [pdf, bib]
David Hall, Daniel Jurafsky, and Christopher D. Manning. 2008. Studying the History of Ideas Using Topic Models. In Proceedings of EMNLP 2008, 363-371.