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Over my years in academia, I noticed that the linguistics departments were always the most fiercely ideological. Almost every comment of a talk would be get contested by somebody from the audience.

It was annoying, but as a psych guy I was also jealous of them for having such clearly articulated theoretical frameworks. It really helped them develop cohesive lines of research to delineate the workings of each theory



Are there really all that many parallels between linguistics (the study of langauge) and computational-linguistics/NLP (subject of discussion)?


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.


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




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