[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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Russell Senior, President
russell at personaltelco.net
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