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As we stated at the beginning of our paper, systems using natural language as a means of human/machine communication exhibit varying degrees of complexity; closely related to it there is the degree of complexity of the NLP module. In any case, however, NLP is both a practically necessary and a theoretically stimulative task. A command of language is an inherent feature of human beings; if an AI system is supposed to model human intelligence, it cannot dispense with a module of natural language understanding and production. A considerable knowledge of language structure and functioning has been gathered throughout the centuries of linguistic research; it would mean reinventing the wheel if this knowledge were ignored.
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Hajičová, E. (1992). Linguistic aspects of natural language processing. In: Mřrík, V., Štěpánková, O., Trappl, R. (eds) Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 617. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55681-8_52
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