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Re:Tom Wolfe takes on linguistics by Isamu on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:35AM (#12166346)
Norvig's essay references Chomsky literally talking about "trying to apply statistical models to various linguistic problems", which is surely what today's search engines do.
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Re:Tom Wolfe takes on linguistics by dilemma on Tuesday July 26, 2016 @11:51AM (#12166456)
It does, but the fact that search engines use statistical models has no overlap with how human language faculties work.
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