What do computational linguists need to know about linguistics?
Robert C. Moore · 2009
In this position paper, we argue that although the data-driven, empirical paradigm for computational linguistics seems to be the best way forward at the moment, a thorough grounding in descriptive linguistics is still needed to do competent work in the field. Examples are given of how knowledge of linguistic phenomena leads to understanding the limitations of particular statistical models and to better feature selection for such models.