This is a pretty good explanation of why almost all practical applications of NLP are now accomplished by statistics rather than fancy linguistic grammar models you might have read about in a Chomsky book.
Old school NLP has always fascinated me though, and I'm pretty excited about what might be possible in the future by using more than purely statistical methods for accomplishing NLP tasks. Maybe the author could have speculated more wildly in his prognostication ;)
Old school NLP has always fascinated me though, and I'm pretty excited about what might be possible in the future by using more than purely statistical methods for accomplishing NLP tasks. Maybe the author could have speculated more wildly in his prognostication ;)