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Small talk / Re: Quotes of interest for linguists
« on: 2008-08-06 09:59:02 »
In the space of the last ten years, statistical methods have gone from being
virtually unknown in computational linguistics to being a fundamental given. In
1996, no one can profess to be a computational linguist without a passing knowl-
edge of statistical methods. HMM’s are as de rigeur as LR tables, and anyone
who cannot at least use the terminology persuasively risks being mistaken for
kitchen help at the ACL banquet.
Steven Abney, Statistical Methods and Linguistics
virtually unknown in computational linguistics to being a fundamental given. In
1996, no one can profess to be a computational linguist without a passing knowl-
edge of statistical methods. HMM’s are as de rigeur as LR tables, and anyone
who cannot at least use the terminology persuasively risks being mistaken for
kitchen help at the ACL banquet.
Steven Abney, Statistical Methods and Linguistics