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Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by drdeca on Monday August 09, 2021 @06:53PM (#28123309)
The two tasks are interconnected. The reasoning flows both ways.
Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by emodendroket on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:59PM (#28123781)
A model of language could help with transcription, but having a perfect transcription doesn't mean you can make heads or tails of what you've got.
Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by h0l0cube on Monday August 09, 2021 @07:30PM (#28123591)
Noise and lack of specificity are completely different problems, and the article concerns itself with the latter
Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by jacobr1 on Monday August 09, 2021 @08:16PM (#28123894)
A noisy word might easily be guessed in context. But likewise a semantically ambiguous word might also be guessed due to other factors like the tone of the speaker, facial expressions or more.

I suspect the parent's point is that the disambiguation in both cases might be addressed with information encoded in the other. One can pattern match based on the context. I think some of the work in multimodal transformer models demonstrates this.

Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by h0l0cube on Monday August 09, 2021 @10:57PM (#28124742)
I think what you're saying is true, but I don't think this kind of ambiguity was really a feature of the examples in the article
Re:Machine learning won't solve natural language understanding by burnte on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @10:39AM (#28129408)
I was replying specifically to the line in the comment I quoted, not the article as a whole.