#8 Speech and language technology: People are not dictionaries

A giant of computational linguistics, Mark Liberman has participated in the evolution of research in this field towards a model of quantitative, replicable studies based on published datasets. I asked Mark how the marriage between linguistics and computer science works today, what skills are young students equipped with, and what applications computational linguistics has today.
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A giant of computational linguistics, Mark Liberman has participated in the evolution of research in this field towards a model of quantitative, replicable studies based on published datasets. He is founder and director of the Linguistic Data Consortium since 1992. During this conversation, I ask Mark how the marriage between linguistics and computer science works today and has worked since the early days of this field, before it was called so. What skills are young students equipped with, and what applications computational linguistics has today. I also ask trivial questions like "how many languages are there in the world?" and you never get a trivial answer from a world class expert like Mark. I have learnt so much from this conversation and I hope you will too! My new favourite quote is: "A language is a dialect with an army and a navy".

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