On: Why I am no longer a skeptic

[andreasvc]

I have the impression that Wittgenstein's musings were of an informal, philosophical nature, and that they are difficult to translate to a practical real world application. That doesn't have to mean that he's necessarily wrong, just that for practical work such as in NLP you are forced to make some rather strong assumptions which are actually just wrong, but which allow us to approximate language to an extent where current technology can do something useful with it.

[koide → andreasvc]

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but current applied NLP is building parse trees and applying probabilistic rules to classification problems.

With those two you can indeed build some awesome tools but we are so, so far away from actual language that it hurts.