Manning Reflects on NLP to Coding Agents
windx0303 · x · 2026-07-15
[Retweet] The author reviews their few sole-authored papers since the early 2000s, considering them to "still hold up today." The listed topics include:\n - Probabilistic Parsing (2003)\n- Local Textual Inference (2006)\n- POS Tagging from 97% to 100% (2011)\n- "The Last Word: Computational Linguistics and Deep Learning" (2015)\n- "Human Language Understanding and Reasoning" (2022)\n [Quote] Another user suggests rereading Manning's views on the "Deep Learning Tsunami" from nearly a decade ago: back then, NLP was still discussing context-free word vectors, whereas today we have fully functional coding agents.
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