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One major problem for the processing of human language on the computer is that the general public as well as industrial management and funding agencies do not fully understand the current limitations of natural language processing (NLP). This tends to result in frustrations for the researchers as well as for everybody else. The non-specialist is often lead to generalize too quickly from smart demonstrations and easily overestimates current technology. I don’t mean to suggest that anybody intentionally misleads or deceives anybody else. The fact of the matter rather is that the functioning of natural language is a good deal more complicated than is generally appreciated.
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Bosch, P. (1991). Portability of Natural Language Systems. In: Brauer, W., Hernández, D. (eds) Verteilte Künstliche Intelligenz und kooperatives Arbeiten. Informatik-Fachberichte, vol 291. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76980-1_37
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