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That's ok. Biological language processing engines crap themselves if they try to parse this correctly.
by wheels 17y ago
That's ok. Biological language processing engines crap themselves if they try to parse this correctly.
- jimbokun 17y agoThe 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).