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I don't think OP understands languages or language acquisition. They seem to believe that vocab and grammar can be "learned separately", and is considering a ru
by phailhaus 3y ago
I don't think OP understands languages or language acquisition. They seem to believe that vocab and grammar can be "learned separately", and is considering a rules-based approach for implementing language grammars.
- jonathanb88 3y agoIt's not primarily rules based as that would be impossible to scale. Where rules are helpful is to provide principles for when a longer or shorter phrase is chosen. Optimising the tradeoff between more frequent repetition of vocabulary versus better quality grammar examples is where a lot of the work is.
- jonathanb88 3y agoI'll actually expand on this, because I think it gets at an interesting point, and at a fundamental 'bet' I'm making. The approach I use should work if there are sufficient 'scaleable' ways to improve accuracy and choose the right phrases. Language analysis, NLP, LLMs etc all help here, and there are many methods I can still use and will add over time. I'm very much at a proof of concept stage right now! This approach won't work if accuracy improvements quickly reach diminishing returns and an explosion of rules and/or human proofing to handle edge cases are required. I'm hoping for the former!