[adamsmith143]

I'm not at all sympathetic to this viewpoint. The Deep Learning revolution has shown us time and time again that Deep Learning experts universally outperform SME on modelling performance. I an almost 100% certain that the teams building big Transformers which are now by far the best NLP models (OpenAI, Meta, Google Brain, Deepmind, etc) are not made up of linguistic experts but Deep Learning experts.

[amitport]

These groups are not mutually exclusive.

[adamsmith143]

Maybe not but I'd guess that in this context the marginal gain for learning more about Linguistics is going to be dwarfed by learning more about Deep Learning.

[sam_lowry_]

In practice, they are, AFAIK.