"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that": Linguistics, Statistics, and Natural Language Processing circa 2001

Abstract

A brief, general-audience overview of the history of natural language processing, focusing on data-driven approaches.Topics include "Ambiguity and language analysis", "Firth things first", "A 'C' change", and "The empiricists strike back".

arXiv commentTo appear, National Research Council study on the Fundamentals of Computer Science. 7 pages

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