[Corpora-List] "Cargo cult" NLP?

[Noah A Smith]

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> But there have also been cases where professors developed a
> "cottage industry" of getting their graduate students to prove
> lots of theorems whose conditions were seldom, if ever met
> in any actual application.
>

I understand and even share your impatience with theoretical work (that's
one reason my work isn't very theoretical).  What time limit shall we set
on demonstrating usefulness of a theoretical idea in applications, and what
punishment shall we impose on the offending researchers (beyond not using
their useless, or not-yet-useful results)?
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