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Subject: Re: WANTED: Simple English Grammar - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 11-Oct-83 19:41:39 EDT
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(Oh no, here he goes again! and with his water-cooled keyboard too!)

Yes, analysis of syntax alone cannot possibly work - as near as I can
tell, syntax-based parsers need an enormous amount of semantic processing,
which seems to be dismissed as "just pragmatics" or whatever.  I'm
not an "in" member of the NLP community, so I haven't been able to
find out the facts, but I have a bad feeling that some of the well-known
NLP systems are gigantic hacks, whose syntactic analyzer is just a bag
hanging off the side, but about which all the papers are written.  Mind
you, this is just a suspicion, and I welcome any disproof...

						stan the l.h.
						utah-cs!shebs