All NLP is about mapping the internal statistical dependencies of language, missing the point that language is a *communication protocol*.
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... maybe I'm being slow, but how should acknowledgement of this fact about efficient communication protocols affect NLP?
an analogy could be trying to understand an economy by looking at statistical structure in stock prices only
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stock prices cannot be understood out of context, and any statistical structure you find is due to inefficiency
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sure, but human language is shaped by cognitive limitations, no info theoretic efficiency
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