Book Reviews: Medical Language Processing: Computer Management of Narrative Data

from many other writings on the subject, is its discussion of the problem of evaluating MT systems. The proposed methodology is decomposed into three distinct areas: (i) evaluation by the system's designer; (ii) cost/benefit evaluation by the user; and (iii) linguistic evaluation by the user. This delineation serves as the framework for a more detailed and impressive, though by no means final, study contained in Appendix A. In the conclusion, Lehrberger and Bourbeau discuss the feasibility of MT, its future prospects, and the impact of evaluation methodology on those prospects. To summarize: I thought that this book was very well written and intended for the mature MT researcher. The impact of the book would be even greater had it been published earlier in the decade.