Language in daily life

Philip A. Bralich, Ph.D. bralich at HAWAII.EDU
Tue Jan 14 20:05:47 UTC 1997


At 08:53 AM 1/14/97 -1000, Susanna Cumming wrote:

>We may have a very primitive linguistics ... description and of explanation.


Good point.


>As far as the impact of linguistics on the outside world is concerned,
>surely it is by knowing something about what people really do with
>language that is going to have practical applications that will impress
>non-linguists. A computational linguist in particular should appreciate
>this -- effective interfaces which use natural language need to be able to
>deal with actual speaker-hearers, not idealized ones, and they need to be
>able to take into account the dynamics of interaction, as much exciting
>work in computational linguistics is doing these days.


Things are beginning to show up on computers and in the marketplace, but I
am skeptical about the state of the art.  There are more patches and
fixes then there are real tools for my way of thinking.

Phil Bralich


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