Echos of Classical indian Linguistics in Natural Language Processing

2025 April 14

Today I watched the talk from Rohan Pandej. It's pretty good! My first time reading more about how indian natural language processing endedup influencing our current thought process on NLP.

Theres this quote from the talk:

The linguistics of India more than two millenia ago was the direct germinal origin of the linguistics of the West today.

• M.B. Emeneu, Founder of UC Berkeley Linguistics Department, 1955

Also, I really want to learn more about GLOM, which looks like an architecture that learns to process images with islands of identrical high-dimensional embedding vectors. Its developed by Geoffrey Hinton (the intern from Google with a Nobel) but it seems to be forgotten through time. I don't know if it never endedup grabbing anyones attention but most likely I'll read it and post a summary over the week.

If you want to watch the talk, its right here: