Natural Language based systems have the reputations of high development cost and low quality. Our goal in this book is to show that the most important factor in building NL based systems is the selection of the right methodologies for the development, regardless of the target language in terms resources richness, or type or complexity of the domain, or even cleanliness of the input text. If this is approach is combined with treating a NLP project as an engineering problem, and not only as a traditional linguistic problem, it is almost guaranteed to produce a system with industrial quality and...