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rather: Wasting time and attention on useless statistics and pointless visualizations.

It quickly becomes apparent that the author has no experience with NLP.

Still, I have mixed feelings regarding your comment. Firstly, the author shows a true hacker spirit by trying to use the computer to solve problems, on the other hand, the author shows great courage to publish his/her thoughts on the Internet.

I do not want to live in a world where people are afraid of publishing their research (as insignificant as it might be) because of other people calling it "a waste of time" or "useless and pointless".

Says the one with a nickname from mythology/fantasy (Darkover-Cycle)... ;-)

I'm not sure what you mean. I was criticizing the viz, not the literature.

Incidentally, I never read anything by Lovecraft, but am a big fan of Tolkien. I came up with this nickname on the spot.

Err---that would be Marion Zimmer Bradley (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Zimmer_Bradley), not Lovecraft. It's possible she got it from "The King in Yellow" usually referred to as 'The Yellow Book', but not know for sure. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_in_Yellow

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