Not much "discussion", there either - as well as (not) on the truly first link back in its day that didn't get up-voted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10

Not much "discussion", there either - as well as (not) on the truly first link back in its day that didn't get up-voted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338114 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10338114 Whatever, to give some opinion: I've read all of Goldberg's stuff and always think it's very excellent. If you are into (statistical) NLP, his work certainly has "sine qua non" rating... EDIT: Oh, but yes, you can skip this and read the book if you are that interested in this stuff and can shell out the bucks - it's more complete and better redacted. (EDIT2: By which I mean the book is more up-to-date with refs from 2017, etc., not that the writing in the linked article is poor or anything!)