> I don't think that the example he gives of whole-versus-part dominance
> transferring from the physical to the linguistic domain is very
> representative.  I think that there are going to be plenty of
> linguistic phenomena that cannot be dealt with via any simple mapping
> from heuristics relevant for understanding the physical world.
> Nevertheless, I think these linguistic phenomena can be dealt with
> using the same reasoning rules and inference control strategies as are
> used for reasoning about physical phenomena.

Agree.

There is linguistic-specific knowledge (which is learned), but no
linguistic-specific inference rule (which is innate). The rules alone
are not enough to produce human-level NLP  performance, though should
be sufficient to learn the needed knowledge (given proper experience,
of course).

Pei

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