| Abstract: |
The term 'approximate lexicography' was introduced by Grefenstette (1998) as a promising way forward - a third way - between warring factions in linguistics (Chomsky 1957) and engineering (Brown et al. 1992). Like most compromises, this one is not perfect, but not bad. Grefenstette attributed approximate lexicography to several people, including Adam Kilgarriff, Jeremy Clear and myself, but in fact, my generation came to this position only after years of persuasive arguments by John Sinclair. |