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by jesuslop 184 days ago
In a complementary story, from light reading I gather that Zellig Harris, that advised Chomsky's dissertation, contributed decisively to distributional semantics, a forerunner of word embeddings, in turn a key to the door of neural NLP. The ML guys had a shiny toolbox ready to use for decades. Had it been more fashionable...

Shalgren, Distributional Legacy: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Harris’s Distributional Program. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F00437956.2024.2414515