Hear! Hear! It’s really frustrating to see so many people act as if there is nothing but neural network based approaches that work for anything moderately complex.

It’s not a good sign that there is little to no understanding of even recent history in the academic disciplines becoming inundated with NNs. Just today I skimmed an article that had a “history” of NLP that completely ignored symbolic and statistical approaches that focus on, you know, parsing natural language…