LINGUIST List 11.1278

Wed Jun 7 2000

Disc: New/Statistic vs Non-statistic NLP

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. JY Wang, Statistic vs non-statistic NLP

Dear linguists:

I've been wondering whether non-statistic NLP can survive anyway? It
seems to me that all materials related to NLP, IR etc. are statistical
or corpus-based on the whole. I do agree that such an approach bears
'descriptive and objective" spirit, but then I believe that too much
dependence on it inevitably turns language into mere character
strings, which I would say must be a methodological expediency. -- I'd
love to have your opinion on this issue. Thank you in advance.

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Arthur Wang
Guangdong University of Foreign Studies
Guangzhou, China
wang_jiayue163.net
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