> statistical Markov Model type methods are outperforming rule based methods I can't speak for the state-of-the-art, but that's certainly what I was taught las

> statistical Markov Model type methods are outperforming rule based methods I can't speak for the state-of-the-art, but that's certainly what I was taught last year. I studied both computational linguistics and IR -two very different approaches to the same problem. IR seemed to be getting much further in terms of real-world results than linguistic approaches. Although linguistic approaches may seem to offer greater potential.