> Everything in NLP nowadays involve ML. Some really nice projects do NLP without using ML at all, for instance Duckling [1] (a library made by facebook to fin

> Everything in NLP nowadays involve ML. Some really nice projects do NLP without using ML at all, for instance Duckling [1] (a library made by facebook to find entities in a text) works a 100% with parsing rules, and is surprisingly efficient. I agree with your point though, most of the time there is ML at some point in your pipeline so you can't really avoid learning it ! [1] https://github.com/facebook/duckling https://github.com/facebook/duckling