Show HN: Natural Language Processing Demystified (Part One)
NLP researcher here. It's great to see many offerings for courses and tutorials, and NLP has made a lot of progress, in terms of both its science as well as its re-usable software artifacts (ibraries & notebooks, standalone tools).<p>But what saddens me is too many people are trying to dive into NLP without trying to understand language & linguistics first. For example, you can run a part of speech (POS) tagger in three lines of Python, but you will still not know much about what parts of speech are, which languages have which ones, what function they have in linguistic theory or practical applications.<p>What are the advantages of using the C7 tagset over the C5 or PENN tagsets?<p>Why is AT sometimes called DET?<p>etc.<p>I recommend people spend a bit of time to read an(y) introduction to linguistics textbook before diving into NLP, then the second investment will be worth so much more.