Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP
In what sense are these theories a &quot;basis&quot; to NLP? Did they have any influence? Do they bring any practical contributions? I suspect a slight similarity between popular domains (Wittgenstein and NLP) was contrived into an article that seems very light on the W part.<p>The &quot;Wittgenstein’s theories&quot; that appear here is just that &quot;the meaning of a word is its use in the language&quot;. If such a plain concept was all of Wittgenstein’s theories, he would be long forgotten.<p>For centuries, dictionaries have presented words through one or several explanations as well as quotes and examples. 150 years ago, Émile Littré wrote a wonderful French dictionary that contains 80,000 words and about 300,000 literary quotes. He knew no word has a simple and permanent meaning, and that one needs to know many real world contexts to get a fine view on a word.