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Part ж—The Trouble with NLP Phineas Q. Phlogiston, Ph.D.

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P lease review previously discussed materials as needed. Now that that is taken care of, let us consider why Natural Language Processing (or, its alter- ego, Computational Linguistics) has not been the resounding success regularly predicted by the NLP faithful: Up next: Lexicostatistics vs Glottochronology. References

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