Re: unnatural natural language, was Natural Language Parser

From	George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: unnatural natural language, was Natural Language Parser
Date	2015-10-01 12:41 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<15-10-001@comp.compilers> (permalink)
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>| > I am looking for a C++ API based English Language Parser. ....
>|
>| You need to be aware that natural languages *can't* be parsed
>| without semantics - i.e. without considering "parts of speech".

>Exactly. Consider the classical "Buffalo" example:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo
>    "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo"

My family is from Buffalo.

That particular example actually gets even more perverse than the
article indicates.   The staff at the Buffalo Zoo claim that their
animals have a unique method of harassing each other which they call
the "Buffalo buffalo".

If the animals really do "Buffalo buffalo" each other, then it follows
that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
Buffalo buffalo".  [That's 10 "buffalos" if you are counting.]
<grin>


FWIW:
  1) The animals in the Buffalo Zoo actually are bison.

  2) Bison are related to buffalo, but are a different species.

  3) Natives pronounce the city's name as "buf4 lo",
      accent on the 1st syllable and without any 'a' sound.
      There are competing  theories regarding the evolution
      of this pronunciation: one claim that it is a mangled
      Seneca Indian name, and two different claims that it
      is mangled French.

YMMV,
George
[I think it's time to get back to computer languages, perhaps after we
discuss the derivation of beef on weck. -John]

Thread

Natural Language Parser Seima Rao <seimarao@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 06:15 +0530
  Re: Natural Language Parser George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2015-09-29 17:02 -0400
    Re: Natural Language Parser rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) - 2015-09-30 11:05 +0000
      Re: unnatural natural language, was Natural Language Parser George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> - 2015-10-01 12:41 -0400
  Re: Natural Language Parser Quinn Jackson <thothic.quinn@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 13:11 -0300
    Re: Natural Language Parser BGB <cr88192@hotmail.com> - 2015-10-02 17:53 -0500
  Re: Natural Language Parser Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2015-10-06 12:54 -0700

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