I agree: independent of how much opinions of colleagues annoy us, we
should be nice in responding. While lists serve to share announcements,
I also agree that they are an important way to discuss topics. If
somebody has strong feelings regarding certain statements, I also think
that it is often more useful to interact with people directly, rather
than sharing critique over the whole list.
Best,
Mattis
On 23.08.23 17:22, Jack Park via Corpora wrote:
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] <mailto:[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 overcompletely, 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
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