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University of Washington Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics Lecture 1: Introduction Garden Path Sentences These curiosities are another kind of ambiguity which are more relevant to psycholinguistics. The old man the boat. The generic NP “the old” and the verb “to man” are much more rarely used than the NP “the old man.” The horse raced past the barn fell. The relative clause “raced past the barn” is not introduced by “which.” Monday, April 1, 2013 46
University of Washington Ling472 Introduction to Computational Linguistics Lecture 1: Introduction Analytical NLP: Summary • Language has significant complexity • Ambiguity is an inherent feature of language • Inferring the syntactic rules of a language is difficult • It appears that syntactic rules are amenable to computational approximation, but there are a great number of them, and they are subtle • See next slide for the obligatory optimism… Monday, April 1, 2013 47
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