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I would bet that pure text-reading AI can absolutely deduce the rules. Finnish morphology (word structure) isn't that complicated. It's routinely used as an exa

I would bet that pure text-reading AI can absolutely deduce the rules. Finnish morphology (word structure) isn't that complicated. It's routinely used as an example in linguistics classes because it is simple and regular. If you want to see truly crazy word structure, try Georgian or Navajo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_verb_paradigm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_verb_paradigm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navajo_grammar

timonoko 6y ago
Achually in 1970s Finnish morphology was considered hard AI-problem. I know this for a fact, because I saw Fred Karlsson in Xerox Interlisp Workstation demo in 1980. Few years later they obviously realized that only some cheap undergraduate labor is needed. Problem is of course how to learn the meanings, when they are omitted in translations. Even native speaker is not always sure, like is "koiran-ko-han-ko" a tautology, or does the second question-mark refer to to the "han". "You wanted a dog, yes?" vs. "You wanted a dog, yes? You sure now?".