honorable mention

== English == === Alternative forms === honourable mention === Pronunciation === === Noun === honorable mention (plural honorable mentions) (idiomatic) An award or recognition given to a person or thing who does not achieve a higher standing but whose performance or entry was noteworthy. 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now!, §8.3 How good are DCGs from a linguistic perspective? Well, mixed. At one stage (in the early 1980s) they were pretty much state of the art. They made it possible to code complex grammars in a clear way, and to explore the interplay of syntactic and semantic ideas. Certainly any history of parsing in computational linguistics would give DCGs an honourable mention. ==== Translations ==== === See also === honorary mention