[Meladel Mistika points to Steven Bird‘s new paper in the open access journal Computational Linguistics.]
Steven Bird’s promoting for there to be more Comp Ling research to be aimed at assisting field linguists in maintaining and organising their data. He’s redefining what should be included as part of core Comp Ling research. Studies that would assist in language documentation should be valued as much, well actually more than the current studies in Comp Ling, which is too often aimed at squeezing out an extra percent on whichever evaluation metric they are using based on somebody else’s Machine Learning algorithm to form a small part of a solution to an NLP problem.
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