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How Widespread is the Use
of Regular Expressions?
•
First chapter in the book “Speech and Language
Processing: An Introduction to Natural
Language Processing, Linguistics, and Speech
Recognition” (Jurafsky and Martin, 2010, ISBN
978-7-115-23892-4) is on Regular Expressions
• “One of the unsung successes in standardization
in computer science has been the regular
expression (RE), a language for specifying text
search strings.”
• “the regular expression is an important
theoretical tool [used] throughout computer
science and linguistics.”
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