Relative clause attachment of the week
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The Berkeley Neural Parser has the same problem that Sluggo does:
And spaCy likewise:
February 20, 2024 @ 3:32 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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The Berkeley Neural Parser has the same problem that Sluggo does:
And spaCy likewise:
February 20, 2024 @ 3:32 pm · Filed by Mark Liberman under Linguistics in the comics
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Gregory Kusnick said,
February 20, 2024 @ 7:48 pm
You'd think such chickens could deliver themselves.
Nat said,
February 20, 2024 @ 11:38 pm
Are the bicycles part of the delivery, or is the bicycle riding merely pure, unrealized, latent capacity.
Peter Taylor said,
February 21, 2024 @ 5:39 am
@Gregory Kusnick, they could, but then who would collect the bicycles?
Aardvark Cheeselog said,
February 21, 2024 @ 9:13 am
Time flies like an arrow.
Fruit flies like a banana.
There can be no context-free parsing of English. You have to know what the words mean.
Philip Taylor said,
February 21, 2024 @ 10:53 am
Surely "you have to know what the words[, phrases, clauses, sentences, …] mean [in that particular context]. Knowing what "fruit", "flies", "like", "a" and "banana" may be necessary but it is nowhere near sufficient.
Bill Benzon said,
February 21, 2024 @ 11:18 am
"You'd think such chickens could deliver themselves."
Like those recursively self-improving AIs the Doomers like to worry about.
David Marjanović said,
February 23, 2024 @ 5:09 pm
The third lines is:
Amelia Earhart flies, like, a plane!
Philip Anderson said,
February 24, 2024 @ 4:52 am
@David Marjanović
Nice, but “flying planes can be dangerous”.