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> I think people forget that grammars were the staple for parsing natural language and stuffing it into structured form for a very long time before LLMs, and th
by creatonez 3y ago
> I think people forget that grammars were the staple for parsing natural language and stuffing it into structured form for a very long time before LLMs, and they still mostly are.
This is a rewritten history of natural language processing tech. Years of fine-tuned theory-heavy grammar coding for parsing and generating human language got the field basically nowhere.