Machine learning (and all other data-driven approaches) to language are a ‘myth’ — language is not data, and these approaches are hopeless for language UNDERSTANDING that requires reasoning with symbolic, infinite, recursive knowledge structures. The DL community climbed so high up the tree and they need a ladder to come down… before they waste another decade and billions more …

https://www.slideshare.net/walidsaba/the-myth-of-natural-language-understanding-116716807

https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.00324