[Corpora-List] WordNet ignores function words ...

[David Wible]

May I add Zellig Harris along with Fries to those who pioneered corpus (and
computational) linguistic work before the field(s) existed and before
'machine-readable corpus' became a redundant term. Citations of Harris seem
to have spiked with the advent of computational approaches to
distributional semantics by those who acknowledge his conceptualizations
and his 'hand-crafted' implementations of these ideas.

- David

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 2:27 PM, John F Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:


> On 5/4/2017 4:59 PM, maxwell wrote:
>
>> My suspicion is that the human linguist would come out well, maybe
>> even better.  But as I say, I'm biased; I'm a linguist at heart.
>>
>
> I agree.  And I cite Charles C. Fries as a linguist who pioneered
> corpus linguistics in the 1950s.  For a bio, see
> http://clu.uni.no/icame/ij34/Fries.pdf
>
> His corpus was tiny by today's standards, but he did good work
> with it.  Unfortunately, Chomsky put Fries and his methods on
> his "enemies list" -- along with Victor Yngve (who had hired him
> to work on machine translation at MIT).
>
> I believe that linguistics and computational linguistics would both
> have made better progress if Chomsky had done what he was paid to do.
>
> John
>
>
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