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Welcome to linguistics! That happens all the time and human linguists are trained to do exactly the same thing. At one point in college, I was frustrated with
by zeckalpha 5y ago
Welcome to linguistics! That happens all the time and human linguists are trained to do exactly the same thing.
At one point in college, I was frustrated with an assignment and said “it could either be this or that but I need another datapoint to disambiguate it”, and someone suggested I look at the back of the page.
- rvense 5y ago> Welcome to linguistics! I've been trying to run away from bad computational linguistics for ten years after making a wrong turn in college. Wish I'd stuck to CxG! Sometimes I actually think people post these kinds of articles here to ruin my mornings. Did you see the one on the Voynich manuscript where they'd decided it was in Hebrew and done a bunch of maths to it and then, when the person they asked who actually knew Hebrew said "this doesn't make sense", they'd put it into Google Translate and accepted the spell checker's suggestion and then put that as the conclusion of their paper? Fun times.