Now, let's get back to LT. Remember, our goal is to create a human-like representation of natural language within computers. How do we do it? Well, let's take a bit of inspiration from the past.
John Rupert Firth was a very famous linguist, and this was one of his most popular quotes:
"You may understand a word by the company it keeps." -John Rupert Firth, 1951
This principle was the inspiration behind enabling Neural Networks (NNs)to understand natural language. If you can understand the words around a word, you can understand the word itself. What does this mean? Well, with NNs, you can understand words ...
