Sadly,the list server fails, at least for me, to respond properly ("Server
error") when reaching back to follow this thread.On Wed, Aug 23, 2023 at 7:31 AM Stan Szpakowicz via Corpora < [email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > Gully Burns wrote this in response to a few unnecessary ad-hominem posts: > > *I was shocked to see a vitriolic ad-hominem attack on a colleague posted > to this mailing list. It is entirely inappropriate to post this type of > diatribe against an individual even though someone might disagree with > either the tone or the content of an individual's messages or arguments. > The fact that other members of the community chimed in to reinforce the > attack is also appalling and entirely inappropriate.* > > I agree with Gully. Ada Wan's posts may be long, and clearly are not to > everyone's liking, but they speak to a phenomenon that is troubling enough > to merit a discussion. Symbolic processing in NLP is utterly outmoded. > Number crunching has taken over completely, and linguistic reflection > seems to be considered unnecessary. This may be an opening for scientific > dodginess. Ada advocates, and very reasonably, for good scientific > practice, so one wonders why anyone would be riled up. > > This may be my optimism, but the Corpora List may be the best forum that > NLP has today. It is not only a place for announcing conferences and > workshops, and advertising open positions. It is, and it should be, a > place for an exchange of ideas. > > -- > Stan Szpakowicz, PhD, DSc, Emeritus Professor > EECS, Computer Science, University of Ottawa > _______________________________________________ > 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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