Trop de syntaxeToo much emphasis on syntax.Too much syntax kills syntax. 50 years of research in syntax have not done much in terms of robust large-scale coverage. On this day we have no French parser of reasonable coverage - NONE. Worse, there is a divorce between descriptive linguists and formal computational linguistics researchers. Furthermore, there is a lingering ambiguity between "linguistic theories" of syntax, formal modeling frameworks, and specific concrete implementations of such in natural language platforms and toolkits. |