Apart from the more practical issues, the book also explores the suitability of the chosen learning paradigm, memory-based learning (Stanfill and Waltz 1986), for NLP problems.
the book is a valuable source of information for a wide range of readers from the linguist interested in applying machine-learning techniques or the machine-learning specialist with no prior experience in NLP to the expert in machine learning wanting to learn more about the appropriateness of the MBLP bias for NLP problems.