Talk:Language and Communication Technologies

The article currently says near the beginning: " it was Noam Chomsky who redefined the goal of linguistics as a quest for a formal description of language generating machinery" and the reference is Syntactic Structures. I think this is a misrepresentation of what Chomsky said in Syntactic Structures and of his position in general. It is true that Chomsky's work was massively influential on computer science in general (e.g. compiler theory) and language translation in particular. But to characterize what Chomsky did to linguistics as being to change the goal so that we can build better software to parse natural languages is just wrong. Space doesn't permit a description of what Chomsky actually said about Linguistics, it would take a lot of words and it's not really relevant but it was not primarily about building better software or computers. IMO, this is just fundamentally wrong and I'm removing that sentence and the reference to Syntactic Structures. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 18:26, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

When I went to edit I realized I could just improve it by taking out the words "generating machinery". It's now accurate and the ref to Chomsky does make sense. Whether this article should even exist is another question though. --MadScientistX11 (talk) 18:30, 18 December 2014 (UTC)