New Developments in Parsing Technology

New Developments in Parsing Technology is a collection of papers based on contributions to the International Workshop on Parsing Technology in the years 2000 and 2001. The publication formatof acollection might raisethefollowing questions: Isthe whole ofthe collection more than the sum of its previously published parts by virtue of an inspired selection of the most seminal papers in the area? Or does the collection go beyond a mere reprint of revised versions of workshop papers by including insightful overview articles or other previously unpublished material? In case of New Developments in Pars- ing Technology the answers to these questions are yes concerning added value by the inclusion of a previously unpublished invited talk by Michael Collins, and no concern- ing exceeding the sum of its previously published parts. Table 1 lists the table of contents of the book. The book starts out with an introduc- tory chapter written by the editors. In this article, the editors motivate an interest in parsing technology by listing 12 application areas that make crucial use of parsing tech- niques. Given the limited pool of candidate papers from two workshops, unfortunately