不同的应用领域会对自然语言处理系统提出各种不同的要求,但有一点是相同的,即希望系统处理的是自然语言,是大规模的真实文本。国际计算语言学界把这一要求确定为未来一个时期的战略目标,还是近两三年的事。本文以谈话方式介绍了这个要求的含义,以及它给语言文字研究带来的巨大影响。影响之一是语料库语言学的崛起,它反映了现代语言学研究中经验 Different application areas put forward different requirements for natural language processing systems, but one thing is the same. That is, the system expects to deal with natural language and is a large-scale real text. International computing linguistics to determine this requirement as a strategic goal for the coming period, or nearly two or three years. This article talks about the implications of this requirement and the enormous impact it has on linguistic research. One of the effects is the rise of corpus linguistics, which reflects the experience of modern linguistics