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Over my years in academia, I noticed that the linguistics departments were always the most fiercely ideological. Almost every comment of a talk would be get con
by parpfish 1y ago
Over my years in academia, I noticed that the linguistics departments were always the most fiercely ideological. Almost every comment of a talk would be get contested by somebody from the audience.
It was annoying, but as a psych guy I was also jealous of them for having such clearly articulated theoretical frameworks. It really helped them develop cohesive lines of research to delineate the workings of each theory
- throwaway314155 1y agoAre there really all that many parallels between linguistics (the study of langauge) and computational-linguistics/NLP (subject of discussion)?
- Legend2440 1y agoComputational linguistics, yes - it is the application of linguistics to computers. Modern NLP, not really - it's all based around statistical modeling with very little linguistics.
- dunefox 1y agoIME, computational linguistics is just NLP and has been for 10 years or so.