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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.
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> 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
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