re: ambiugous sentences

Subject: re: ambiugous sentences
From: "CB Casper" <knowone -at- surfy -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 06:50:44 -0800


pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net reported:
> While doing some AI studies of parsing engines
> I ran across some interesting sentences:
> The horse run past the barn fell.

Eric made the start of my point with:
> Let's face it. All of the sentences suck.
> As they fail to clearly communicate,
> regardless of what some class in the theory
> of linguistics might say, they
> should not appear in any tech docs.
-----------------------------------

ad nauseum and delightem . . . but to get
back to the original intent, AI parsing.

It's easy to construct sentences that are
grammatically correct, but meaningless.
The real question is, do any of the AI
parsing engines work with good technical
writing?

CB
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