Rumination on Natural Language Processing: Fundamental.

I have long been intrigued with computational linguistic. However, the paradox is: the further I went onwards, the more pale I felt about statistical method in dealing with human language. In the past decade, along with the boost in the development of NLP, have come deep-rooted drawbacks brought by machine learning. These problems have proven more difficult than we thought it would be, and the solution is unlikely to rest on a foundation of clean, beautiful mathematics. Partly because of the influence of Noam Chomsky, natural language researchers began to focus on syntax and parsing. Even though, AI systems are still a very long way from achieving its original goal of creating flexible, integrated, human-like AI. Yet, it is really meaningful to create some valuable technologies in specific narrow domains. For, AI as a field, may pause occasionally to take advantage of these new technologies, thus becoming a boost to our original goal. That's how ?Rumination on Natural Language Processing? came out, recording the effort and contemplation that has brought me where I am. Hope some of my thoughts in this book will be kind of help to your work.

Saike HE has extensive work experience as a NLP researcher. His previous work proved promising in international evaluations, with high level journal and conference papers published.After graduation from BUPT as 'Outstanding Graduate Student', he is now serving as the team leader of Data Mining group at ISI team, Institute of Automation,CAS.