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Mar 26, 2013 12:14


I take Chomsky's points to be the following:

  1. Statistical language models have had engineering success, but that is irrelevant to science.
  2. Accurately modeling linguistic facts is just butterfly collecting; what matters in science (and specifically linguistics) is the underlying principles.
  3. Statistical models are incomprehensible; they provide no ( Read more... )

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homo_risorius March 26 2013, 11:27:09 UTC
Я за модели!

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