Hi all, 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 and NLP. Analyzing English Syntax with a Pattern-Learning Parser <https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365660.365683> Analyzing English syntax with a pattern-learning parser | Communications of the ACM<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365660.365683> dl.acm.org<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365660.365683> [365660.cover.jpg]<https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/365660.365683> I can’t find anything earlier than this. 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? ......................................................... Hansen Hsu, Ph.D. Curator, Software History Center Computer History Museum he/him 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd. Mountain View, CA 94043 (650) 810-1880 direct (650) 810-1010 main (650) 284-6254 mobile (650) 810-1055 fax hhsu@computerhistory.org<mailto:hhsu@computerhistory.org> Follow Us: CHM.org<https://computerhistory.org/> I Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/computerhistory> I Twitter<http://www.twitter.com/computerhistory> I YouTube<http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory> I Subscribe to Our Newsletter<https://www.computerhistory.org/subscribe>
