That was the poll question my hero Professor Emily Bender
posed on Twitter March 30th. 573 tweets later, a truly epic thread had
been created pitting some of the most influential NLPers in the world
head to head in a contest of wit and debate that is truly what the field
of NLP needed. Unfortunately, Twitter proves hapless at being able to
view the thread as a single conversation using their app. But, student
Sebastian Meilke used a Chrome extension called Treeverse to put
together the whole thread into a single, readable format, complete with
sections!
If you are at all interested in NLP or linguistics, this is a must read: NLP/CL Twitter Megathrea.
I would be remiss if I didn't note my own small role in this. Emily's poll was sparked by my own Tweet where I said I was glad the Linguistics Society of America is starting their own Society for Computational Linguistics because "the existing CL and NLP communities have gotten farther and farther off the linguistics path"
Happy reading
