[PLUG-TALK] Language: Google vs. Humans

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue May 24 00:00:26 UTC 2016


>>>>> "John" == John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> writes:

John> The bracketing problem is far less common in other languages
John> because they have markers on the modifiers that match the noun
John> that they belong to. Anglo-Saxon did as well, but in present day
John> English the inflections have been almost completely lost, leaving
John> us wondering what modifier belongs with which noun.

My wife is studying Mandarin.  One of the things she was telling me
about is that they don't have yes/no ambiguity problems in answering
questions.  In english, you can be confused, e.g.:

  Q: Did you not close the door?
  A: Yes!
  Q: Wut?

In Chinese:

  Q: Closed, not-closed door?
  A: Not closed.

Or something vaguely like that.

Chinese aspergers syndromers must be much happier people.


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