This seminar begins by looking at how context might be defined in a way that does justice to both disciplines and both sets of problems. Paradigms in genetic expression will be looked at through the prism supplied by nlp. The simplistic "one gene, one protein" notion that characterised the HGP's publicity will be seen as analogous to template matching in nlp, a technique whose limitations have long been apparent to the linguistics community. The phenomenon of alternative splicing demands at the very least a concept analogous to that of compositional semantics in nlp. Yet more sophisticated linguists use different techniques that combine syntax and semantics in different ways depending on the degree of restriction of context, and the task involved. The seminar ends with speculation about biological counterparts of this impetus toward diversity.
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