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Date:Fri, 9 Jul 2004 09:11:00 +0000 (UTC) 
Subject:RE: RE: Anyone seen "teach nlpcourse1-8?"... 
From:Rudiger Lutz 
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> 
> The importance of such structure-based teaching materials 
> will grow again as the limitations of the statistical, 
> corpus-based, approach to natural language processing become 
> more widely understood.
> 
> I see that approach as a temporary fad which fails to 
> distinguish a side effect of fluency-optimising processes in 
> language-users from the more basic mechanisms that make it 
> possible to understand and use language in the way humans do.
> 

I have to say I strongly agree with this (even though I have been involved
in such statistical work myself)!

Rudi