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		throwaway314155 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: When ChatGPT broke the field of NLP: An oral histo... Are there really all that many parallels between linguistics (the study of langauge) and computational-linguistics/NLP (subject of discussion)?

Legend2440 3 months ago [–]

Computational 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 3 months ago | [–]

IME, computational linguistics is just NLP and has been for 10 years or so.

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