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

Analyzing English syntax with a pattern-learning parser | Communications of the ACM

dl.acm.org

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?

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