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Reminds me of the confusion with negatives and languages: -Vill du inte ha glass? [Don't you want ice cream?] -はい [Yes] Does she want ice cream? Answer: No, sh
by danielscrubs 7y ago
Reminds me of the confusion with negatives and languages:
-Vill du inte ha glass? [Don't you want ice cream?]
-はい [Yes]
Does she want ice cream? Answer: No, she doesn't. I added a not, so she's reversing the answer as Japanese people do.
The number of times I've been dumbstruck by this is larger than I'd like to admit, and I'm a coder.
- reubenmorais 7y agoEnglish has similar confusion even for plain, non negated questions. Q: "Do you mind if I sit here?" A1: "Not at all!" A2: "Sure!" Both are valid answers and mean the same thing, the person asking is welcome to sit there. This has always amused me.
- Chris2048 7y agoI'm not sure I understand, "mind" means "object to", so they are asking "Do you [object to] me sitting here?"; "Not at all" == "I do Not [object to you sitting here] at all"
- Myrmornis 7y agoDefinitely what you say is the accepted meaning. But wouldn’t you say A1 is more correct than A2? Possibly relevant, there’s also A3: “Sure I do, last time you sat next to me you wouldn’t shut up.”
- lars 7y agoThat's an excellent example to show why statistical NLP outperforms discrete parsing using logical rules. That A1 and A2 means the same is something that is clear to us from the context. This is something a continuous vector space model can capture and a discrete rules based model cannot.