Wittgenstein’s theories are the basis of all modern NLP
In what sense are these theories a "basis" 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.The "Wittgenstein’s theories" that appear here is just that "the meaning of a word is its use in the language". If such a plain concept was all of Wittgenstein’s theories, he would be long forgotten.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.