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Announcement New Editor of Computer Speech and Language
Computer Speech and Language (2001) 15, 337 doi:10.1006/csla.2001.0177 Available online at http://www.idealibrary.com on
Announcement New Editor of Computer Speech and Language
The editorial policy of Computer Speech and Language is to encourage paper submissions across the full range of speech and language research, and especially the intersection between them. Traditionally we have had very strong representation on our board from the speech community, but we have been less strong on the language side. Recently, we have taken some steps to redress this imbalance with new appointments to the Editorial Board. Also, of course, many of our old board members have interests which span both speech and language. Despite these improvements still more needs to be done. In particular, it is clear that we cannot achieve a fully balanced representation until we have an Editor whose main focus is on the language side. With this in mind, we are very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ted Briscoe as the new third Editor for Computer Speech and Language. Ted Briscoe is a Reader in Computational Linguistics at Cambridge University. His specific research interests include deterministic, statistical, and robust parsing techniques, acquiring lexical information from electronic textual corpora and dictionaries, defaults and constraintbased approaches to linguistic description, exploiting prosody and punctuation during parsing, models of human language learning and parsing, and evolutionary simulations of language variation and change. Ted has been a long-standing advocate of the use of statistical methods in linguistics and he is well equipped to help link the speech and language communities. His appointment will greatly strengthen the editorial team and we warmly welcome him to Computer Speech and Language. THE EDITORS
0885–2308/01/040337 + 01 $35.00/0
c 2001 Academic Press
Announcement New Editor of Computer Speech and Language
The editorial policy of Computer Speech and Language is to encourage paper submissions across the full range of speech and language research, and especially the intersection between them. Traditionally we have had very strong representation on our board from the speech community, but we have been less strong on the language side. Recently, we have taken some steps to redress this imbalance with new appointments to the Editorial Board. Also, of course, many of our old board members have interests which span both speech and language. Despite these improvements still more needs to be done. In particular, it is clear that we cannot achieve a fully balanced representation until we have an Editor whose main focus is on the language side. With this in mind, we are very pleased to announce the appointment of Dr Ted Briscoe as the new third Editor for Computer Speech and Language. Ted Briscoe is a Reader in Computational Linguistics at Cambridge University. His specific research interests include deterministic, statistical, and robust parsing techniques, acquiring lexical information from electronic textual corpora and dictionaries, defaults and constraintbased approaches to linguistic description, exploiting prosody and punctuation during parsing, models of human language learning and parsing, and evolutionary simulations of language variation and change. Ted has been a long-standing advocate of the use of statistical methods in linguistics and he is well equipped to help link the speech and language communities. His appointment will greatly strengthen the editorial team and we warmly welcome him to Computer Speech and Language. THE EDITORS
0885–2308/01/040337 + 01 $35.00/0
c 2001 Academic Press