The abstract for the new arXiv paper, "LastWords: Boring Problems Revisited," describes it as a follow-up to a 2022 Last Words piece in Computational Linguistics. In that earlier column, the second author argued that, even with advances in AI, certain natural language processing problems remained unresolved. The new paper's title suggests a return to that argument.
The provided abstract is truncated, so the specific problems and conclusions are not available from the source. What is clear is that the authors intend to revisit the earlier discussion, and the phrase "boring problems" in the title implies the issues are still considered relevant or underappreciated.
Because only the abstract's opening lines are available, this digest can only note the paper's existence and its stated relationship to the 2022 column. Readers seeking the full argument will need to consult the arXiv listing.