tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659270781112607019.post3291891361866223577..comments2018-03-03T03:30:24.451-08:00Comments on Mathematical Linguistics etc.: Bloomfield vs. Harris on the road to learnabilitySean Fulophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06610398963994746965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659270781112607019.post-28532006460806375502012-10-01T23:43:19.820-07:002012-10-01T23:43:19.820-07:00OK, fair enough. At this point I am still trying ...OK, fair enough. At this point I am still trying to figure out if natural languages are plausibly "syntactically homogeneous" in the sense I defined, or some similar sense. Maybe I'll write a paper just on that, for a general linguistics journal.<br /><br />Sean Fulophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06610398963994746965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5659270781112607019.post-49175127736373010422012-09-30T01:14:24.500-07:002012-09-30T01:14:24.500-07:00You are quite right that natural languages are not...You are quite right that natural languages are not substitutable -- but that paper is a non-probabilistic learner so the learning model is too strict. One can enlarge the class of languages greatly using probabilistic models or membership queries.<br /><br />Learning tree languages is a different problem ..Alex Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04634767958690153584noreply@blogger.com