> I have no idea why they cancelled it. My guess: because statistical methods are all the rage now, and have been for a while. This is famously illustrated by

> I have no idea why they cancelled it. My guess: because statistical methods are all the rage now, and have been for a while. This is famously illustrated by Fred Jelinek's quote "every time I fire a linguist, the performance of the speech recognizer goes up"[1], and cemented with the success of Google Translate. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Jelinek