Editorial note. (19th December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: TAIT, JOHN
• Is Part Of: Natural language engineering. Volume 25:Part 1(2019)
• Page Start: 1
• Page End: 4
• Publication Date: 2018-12-19
• Subjects: Natural language processing (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Software engineering -- Periodicals; 006.35
• DOI: 10.1017/S1351324918000438
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1351-3249

Abstract

Abstract : 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.