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  • Obituary: Yorick Wilks

  • John Tait
  • Journal:
    Natural Language Engineering / Volume 29 / Issue 3 / May 2023
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 May 2023, pp. 846-847
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  • Anniversary article: Then and now: 25 years of progress in natural language engineering

  • John Tait, Yorick Wilks
  • Journal:
    Natural Language Engineering / Volume 25 / Issue 3 / May 2019
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    15 May 2019, pp. 405-418

  • The paper reviews the state of the art of natural language engineering (NLE) around 1995, when this journal first appeared, and makes a critical comparison with the current state of the art in 2018, as we prepare the 25th Volume. Specifically the then state of the art in parsing, information extraction, chatbots, and dialogue systems, speech processing and machine translation are briefly reviewed. The emergence in the 1980s and 1990s of machine learning (ML) and statistical methods (SM) is noted. Important trends and areas of progress in the subsequent years are identified. In particular, the move to the use of n-grams or skip grams and/or chunking with part of speech tagging and away from whole sentence parsing is noted, as is the increasing dominance of SM and ML. Some outstanding issues which merit further research are briefly pointed out, including metaphor processing and the ethical implications of NLE.

  • Editorial note

  • JOHN TAIT
  • Journal:
    Natural Language Engineering / Volume 25 / Issue 1 / January 2019
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    19 December 2018, pp. 1-4
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  • Natural Language Engineering really came about from a meeting between Roberto Garigliano (then of Durham University) and myself in his office in late 1992 or early 1993. I had returned to academia the previous year after a spell doing a variety of jobs in industry, and had become aware of Roberto and the Natural Language Group at Durham (just about 15 miles from the University of Sunderland where I was working). Roberto and I discussed several possible avenues of cooperation, including sponsorship by Durham of students on existing Sunderland masters degrees, a joint Durham/Sunderland specialist Masters in Language Engineering (which came to nothing) and a new journal focused on practical, engineering work in the language domain. Incidentally, one of the sponsored master’s students was Siobhan Devlin, now Head of Computing at Sunderland.

Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
  • Essays in Honour of John Walter
  • With contributions by Alexandra Shepard , Amanda J. Flather , Andy Wood , Clodagh Tait , Colin Davis , John Morrill , Keith Thomas , Keith Wrightson , Mark Knights , Michael Braddick , Paul Slack , Richard Smith , Steve Hindle and Phil Withington
  • Edited by Michael J. Braddick, Phil Withington
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    09 May 2017
    Print publication:
    17 March 2017
  • One of the most notable currents in social, cultural and political historiography is the interrogation of the categories of 'elite' and 'popular' politics and their relationship to each other, as wellas the exploration of why and how different sorts of people engaged with politics and behaved politically. While such issues are timeless, they hold a special importance for a society experiencing rapid political and social change, like early modern England. No one has done more to define these agendas for early modern historians than John Walter. His work has been hugely influential, and at itsheart has been the analysis of the political agency of ordinary people. The essays in this volume engage with the central issues of Walter's work, ranging across the politics of poverty, dearth and household, popular political consciousness and practice more broadly, and religion and politics during the English revolution. This outstanding collection, bringing together some of the leading historians of this period with some of the field's rising stars, will appeal to anyone interested in the social, cultural and political history of early modern England or issues of popular political consciousness and behaviour more generally.

    MICHAEL J. BRADDICK is professor of history at the University of Sheffield. PHIL WITHINGTON is professor of history at the University of Sheffield.

    CONTRIBUTORS: Michael J. Braddick, J. C. Davis, Amanda Flather, Steve Hindle, Mark Knights, John Morrill, Alexandra Shepard, Paul Slack, Richard M. Smith, Clodagh Tait, Keith Thomas, Phil Withington, Andy Wood, Keith Wrightson.

  • 14 - ‘Whereat his wife tooke great greef & died’: dying of sorrow and killing in anger in seventeenth-century Ireland

  • With contributions by Alexandra Shepard , Amanda J. Flather , Andy Wood , Clodagh Tait , Colin Davis , John Morrill , Keith Thomas , Keith Wrightson , Mark Knights , Michael Braddick , Paul Slack , Richard Smith , Steve Hindle and Phil Withington
  • Edited by Michael J. Braddick, Phil Withington
  • Book:
    Popular Culture and Political Agency in Early Modern England and Ireland
    Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
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    09 May 2017
    Print publication:
    17 March 2017, pp 267-284

  • Summary

    In 1642, Anne Read's husband died of grief. In the same year, Sir Con Magennis died tormented by his evil deeds and ‘much … affrighted with the apprehension and conceipt that … Mr Tudge [a minister he had slain] was still in his presence’.Early modern people attributed huge consequence to ‘passions’ (they would not have used the word ‘emotion’) like grief, anger and fear. When uncontrolled, ‘passion’ started wars and ended life. Little wonder that contemporaries urged the restraint of potentially damaging feelings. However, there were times when emotions were particularly difficult to check.

    John Walter's recent work on the collection of documents called the 1641 Depositions has assisted in building a new understanding of the outbreak of waves of violence in Ireland in 1641–2 and subsequently. The depositions contain testimonies from about 3,000 people, mostly British Protestant settlers, who had been dispossessed of their lands, homes and goods by Catholic rebels. Some had been confronted by crowds of local people, though as the rebellion continued, gentlemen tended to take over the leadership of these attacks. Either way, most of the deponents could identify at least some of those involved. The majority had been threatened with violence, and many bore tales of loss of property, personal injury and the torture and violent deaths of their family members, friends and neighbours. There were also accounts of incidents of desecration of sacred space and iconoclasm and of the deliberate humiliation of victims, who were routinely stripped and insulted. The depositions also contain a later set of ‘examinations’, usually conducted to probe particular crimes that had occurred in the early 1640s. The testimonies here included those of both settler and native witnesses and alleged perpetrators. It is no surprise, therefore, that Nicholas Canny should have described the depositions as ‘a body of material which is emotional’. Historians of the period often reflect on the emotional state of the Gaelic Irish and Old English participants, to paint a picture of simmering humiliation, shame, resentment, hostility, fear, hatred, anxiety and despair that led to outpourings of vengeful rage. Though economic and other grievances are pinpointed as arousing these emotions, they are regularly fathered above all on religion: Inga Jones argues that ‘religion has the capacity to arouse passions which go beyond what political and localist concerns can stimulate, a passion which … could and did spill over into unrestrained slaughter’.

  • In Memoriam: David L. Waltz

  • John Tait
  • Journal:
    Natural Language Engineering / Volume 18 / Issue 3 / July 2012
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    25 May 2012, p. 291
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  • David L. Waltz died on March 22, 2012 after suffering from brain cancer.

    Dave was a good friend to Natural Language Engineering, and provided some sage advice when Roberto Garigliano and I started working on the proposed journal in the early 1990s; he subsequently agreed to serve as a founding editorial board member.

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