All NLP is about mapping the internal statistical dependencies of language, missing the point that language is a *communication protocol*.
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The only reason language even has any statistical dependencies to study is because it's imperfect.
A maximally efficient communication protocol would look like random noise, out of context (besides error correction mechanisms).
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but the error correction mechanisms are how the protocol is maintained, so your notion of "imperfect" seems ill-founded.
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plenty of perceptual phonetics people (
@lingprof !) are interested in the redundancies in lg change and stability. -
and idiosyncrasies for signaling change. Mari and I are looking at that now.
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It would, provided each participant had the correct one time pad to decipher.
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What if you consider the task of language to include the ability for new agents to learn it from observation, though?
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why should human language be maximally efficient?
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it shouldn't. The point is that it could, and it would still serve the same purpose.
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