> > On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:00 -0500, Kevin Toppenberg wrote: > > [KSB] <...snip...> > > > I also have been interested in natural language processing. There is > > something about it that makes one think that it should be easy to > > create a parser etc, and from there make a step towards understanding. > > [KSB] This brings back memories of when I was a graduate student in > computer science with an interest in artificial intelligence, back in > mid 1970s. > > Consider: > > Time flies like an arrow. > Banana files like a peach. > > You can't parse it without considering semantics, including metaphors. > Natural language processing, outside of restricted domains, is hard. I > went on to smaller challenges. > > -- Bhaskar
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