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<div>A woman in San Francisco recently reached out to CHM asking if a paper her mother, Keren McConlogue, co-published in CACM in 1965 is the first use of machine learning in a natural language parser, and what place it has in the history of machine learning
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<div><i>Analyzing English Syntax with a Pattern-Learning Parser</i></div>
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<div style="display: block;">I can’t find anything earlier than this.</div>
<div style="display: block;">Has anyone looked into the earliest uses of what would have been called “pattern recognition” in building a parser that could construct a syntactic grammar by learning from example sentences?</div>
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