President% Quarterly Message

Too few people are doing basic research in AT rela-language processing seems misguided to me. There is too tive to the number working on applications The ratio of much emphasis on syntax and not enough on the semantics. This is unfortunate, between existing AI formalisms and English miss the point. Even the applied goals press in English what we already know how to express in proposed by various groups in the U.S., Europe and Japan for the next ten years are not just engineering extrapolations computerese. Rather we must study those ideas expressible in natural language that no-one knows how to represent at from the present state of science.