Venkatesh Rao@vgr·Feb 1, 2015Machine learning people: have there been successful efforts to do automated idiom transation? Like equivalent proverbs in diff langs?63
neil21@neil21·Feb 1, 2015Replying to @vgr@vgr Interestingly Ray Jackendoff posited in 90s/00s that idiom-like rote pattern matching/adaptation was the general language mechanism313
neil21@neil21·Feb 1, 2015Replying to @neil21@vgr vs Chomsky who since the 50s has pushed Generative Grammar, buildings blocks and local operation, no larger structures except memorised1
Venkatesh Rao@vgrReplying to @neil21.@neil21 Precisely, Chomsky stock is already going down, Sapir-Whorf lineage is being rehabilitated from academic disrepute.10:00 PM · Feb 1, 20152 Likes