Amendment: In short, there are no symbolic concepts relevant in computing / computational processing except for those which also align with statistics. (There are various levels of assumptions/abstractions that could be relevant depending on the goals/tasks. But much of what one might have been doing in "symbolic computing" surely deserves a critical re-examination.
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 4:48 PM Ada Wan <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Ben, Rodolfo, and Toms > > Please accept that there is a responsibility to science, technology, > engineering, and education (or anything that we undertake). > > If you could point out the specific arguments as to which of what I wrote > may be problematic to you, perhaps we can have a constructive exchange. The > way in which you three expressed your sentiments on this thread can be > interpreted as mobbing. > > Please note the intent behind my statement and lend me the benefit of a > doubt as to why I would have invested my time and energy to write the reply > that I did to the list: > "As language sciences (e.g. Linguistics) and NLP are still taught at some > universities, i.e. part of publicly accessible education, there is a > general responsibility that one should bear when promoting/hosting events > that would be explicitly/implicitly supporting biases and/or in violation > of scientific integrity." > This applies to the whole area of computing, including digital humanities > and the computational social sciences.* In short, there are no symbolic > concepts relevant in computing / computational processing.* I am sorry if > that has not been clear. > > I understand that there are members in the CL/NLP community/communities > who might be interested in (or used/addicted to) "word" hacking. But it is > now high time to stop. > > @Ben: Please note that I am not doing this "for fun". I am not trying to > ridicule anyone. My remarks are not ad personam. For each of the research > directions/practices that I commented on, there are opportunities for all > practitioners to do a better job, to refine our analyses. > > Thanks and best > Ada > > > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 9:45 AM Toms Bergmanis via Corpora < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Can’t agree more. >> >> Toms >> >> >> >> >> >> *From:* Rodolfo Delmonte via Corpora <[email protected]> >> *Sent:* Monday, August 21, 2023 10:06 AM >> *To:* Ben Sir <[email protected]> >> *Cc:* corpora <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* [Corpora-List] Re: RANLP 2023 Call for Participation >> >> >> >> Fully agree with you Ben. >> >> Rodolfo >> >> >> >> Il lun 21 ago 2023, 01:00 Ben Sir via Corpora <[email protected]> >> ha scritto: >> >> Hi Ada, >> >> It's understandable that enthusiasm can sometimes lead to excessive >> engagement, but your disruptive posting on the mailing list has reached an >> intolerable level. Please keep your conversations private instead of >> spamming everyone and curb your enthusiasm. Your obnoxious behavior >> reflects poorly on you. >> >> Thanks. >> _______________________________________________ >> Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] >> https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> >> >> Nota automatica aggiunta dal sistema di posta >> >> >> >> *Sostieni il futuro* >> >> Dona il tuo 5x1000 al Collegio Internazionale Ca' Foscari >> >> *FINANZIAMENTO DELLA RICERCA SCIENTIFICA E DELLA UNIVERSITÀ | CODICE >> FISCALE: 80007720271* >> _______________________________________________ >> Corpora mailing list -- [email protected] >> https://list.elra.info/mailman3/postorius/lists/corpora.list.elra.info/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >
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