"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing circa 2001
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@article{lee2003"i'm,
    title={"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, Statistics,
  and Natural Language Processing circa 2001},
    author={Lillian Lee},
    journal={In "Computer Science: Reflections on the Field, Reflections from
  the Field" (report of the National Academies' Study on the Fundamentals of
  Computer Science), pp. 111--118, 2004},
    year={2003},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cs/0304027},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}