Harald Sack<p>We are starting <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/ISE2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ISE2025</span></a> lecture 02 with a (very) brief history of <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/NLP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NLP</span></a> pointing out only some selected highlights. Linguist Ferdinand de Saussure was laying the foundations of today's NLP by describing languages as “systems.” He argued that meaning is created inside language, in the relations and differences between its parts.</p><p>Course in general linguistics. <a href="https://ia600204.us.archive.org/0/items/SaussureFerdinandDeCourseInGeneralLinguistics1959/Saussure_Ferdinand_de_Course_in_General_Linguistics_1959.pdf" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ia600204.us.archive.org/0/item</span><span class="invisible">s/SaussureFerdinandDeCourseInGeneralLinguistics1959/Saussure_Ferdinand_de_Course_in_General_Linguistics_1959.pdf</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>linguistics</span></a> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/historyofscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>historyofscience</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://wisskomm.social/@fiz_karlsruhe" class="u-url mention">@<span>fiz_karlsruhe</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@fizise" class="u-url mention">@<span>fizise</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sigmoid.social/@enorouzi" class="u-url mention">@<span>enorouzi</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@tabea" class="u-url mention">@<span>tabea</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@sourisnumerique" class="u-url mention">@<span>sourisnumerique</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@KIT_Karlsruhe" class="u-url mention">@<span>KIT_Karlsruhe</span></a></span> <a href="https://sigmoid.social/tags/AIFB" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AIFB</span></a></p>