A great deal of work has been done demonstrating the ability of machine learning algorithms to automatically extract linguistic knowledge from annotated corpora. Very little work has gone into quantifying the difference in ability at this task between a person and a machine. This paper is a first step in that direction.
@article{arxiv.cs/0105002,
title = {Man [and Woman] vs. Machine: A Case Study in Base Noun Phrase Learning},
author = {Eric Brill and Grace Ngai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0105002},
year = {2007}
}