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I bet Natural Language Processing Engines would crap them selves if they try to parse this correctly. This is why we can't have nice things

• robryan 17y ago
  What I was thinking, worrying giving that I'll probably be doing a fair bit of work in language processing this year.
• wheels 17y ago
  That's ok. Biological language processing engines crap themselves if they try to parse this correctly.
  • jimbokun 17y ago
    The real problem is that an artificial language processing engine will find a parse for it. One actual example I remember is a parse of "New fans run." About the operation of recently acquired fans, right? Well, the lexicon in our system found an instance of "New" as a proper noun (a band or something), the use of "fans" as a transitive verb, and one of the definition of "runs" as a noun (think baseball, for just one example). So you had this proper noun New fanning this abstract usage of runs as the parse that the system selected. This more than anything demonstrated to me the necessity of statistical techniques in NLP (now taken as a given, but a fairly recent development relative to the history of NLP research).
• endtime 17y ago
  Really? As the sentences get longer, I'd expect NLP engines to have a much easier time with it than people do.