Common Language Processing Challenges & Achievements #472501

Natural Language ProcessingChallenges, Achievements and ProblemsA Sober Personal Perspective∗Yaacov Choueka«Like the meridians converge withinside the POLE,Science, Philosophy, and ReligionConverge withinside the area of the WHOLE.»(Teilhard de Chardin)(quoted in Jose Felix Costa e-mail messages)1 Setting the SceneIs Natural Language Processing (NLP) honestly complicated, as is so regularly claimed? And ifso, why? What did we attain on this area - in a feel to be greater truelydelineated later -- after greater than fifty years of studies and improvement? Howa good deal greater are we able to count on from the following decade or ? These are the problems on whichI would really like to mirror withinside the following strains.Formally, I had been engaged in NLP on account that 1963, after I turned into assigned – andfinished - the mission of constructing an correct and complete lemmatizer andmorphological analyzer for cutting-edge Hebrew, as I defined with a few element in mydifferent paper on this quantity; a mission which turned into quickly observed on occasion with the aid of using differentengagements in automated Hebrew morphology for greater than ten years.Realistically, but, I have become concerned on this subject in the direction of the mid 1970s, andintently observed its development and achievements, even as modestly contributing right here andthere to it, until the early 2000s. And aleven though I am now no longer pretty up to date on its latesttendencies withinside the previous few years, having quite unnoticed it to the gain of whatregarded to me to be new and greener pastures, I nevertheless experience I can by some means evaluate thissubject and verify it from the factor of view of a pro eagle, perched on a tortuousdepartment of a excessive tree, compensating for the blurry of the information with the aid of using the sizable panoramaof hills, valleys and rivers that unfolds frivolously below his now no longer-so-pretty piercing eyes.