I have to wonder if English is really the best language for NLP research. Things like the Winograd schemas which have attracted a lot of attention simply aren't possibilities in other languages.
Why not start working with more structured agglutinative * languages like Japanese/Korean and Indic family (Sanskrit esp.) .
How about other European languages ? Are they better structured empirically ? I hear German is very grammatical, and that Hungarian is ... erm odd ?
( Note: I know occidental tradition likes to split Indic tongues, and Indo in Indo-European is not considered agglutinative. I don't subscribe to this view. I use agglutinative in the sense of Panini: "particles" sticking to stems/roots/words - phonetic modifications are irrelevant for grammar.)
Why not start working with more structured agglutinative * languages like Japanese/Korean and Indic family (Sanskrit esp.) .
How about other European languages ? Are they better structured empirically ? I hear German is very grammatical, and that Hungarian is ... erm odd ?
( Note: I know occidental tradition likes to split Indic tongues, and Indo in Indo-European is not considered agglutinative. I don't subscribe to this view. I use agglutinative in the sense of Panini: "particles" sticking to stems/roots/words - phonetic modifications are irrelevant for grammar.)