Issues & Problems

Schwerbelastungskörper, or “heavy load test structure”

Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

If you know, you know

"I wasn’t sure why Adolf Hitler had chosen a cosy little tourist town as his unofficial capital – which is what it was"

Nergens is meer lawaai van kinderen te horen

Jan Jansen stond voor de rechter vanwege moord op zijn schoonmoeder. Hij werd vrijgesproken

Consider, "I saw a man with a jacket" versus "I saw a man with a telescope". In the former, we know that a "jacket" is something that people wear and is not a mechanism for viewing people. So syntactically, the "jacket" must be a property associated with the "man" and not the verb "saw", i.e., I did not see the man by using a jacket to view him. Whereas in the latter, we know that a telescope is something with which we can view people, so it can also be a property of the verb. Of course, it is ambiguous, maybe the man is carrying the telescope.

Gertrude Stein "Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose" "there is no there there"

"Ask a computer to interpret a phrase such as ‘time flies like an arrow’ and it might think that there is a species of insect called ‘time flies’ that feed on arrows." (from "Forewarned: A Sceptic's Guide to Prediction" by Paul Goodwin)

English is a tough language. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.

Ambiguity: fast, shower, patient.

"next" weekend can (sometimes) mean the one after the coming weekend. (some) people use "this" for the coming weekend, and "next" for the one after that.

German compound word: Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz

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Schnellschrauber Fussbodenschleifmaschinenverleih

Geschwindigkeitsbeschränkungen

"If I Die, I Die"

Is a Tweet for example sarcastic or is it about sarcasm. Issue with analysis.

“There was not a single man at the party” Does it mean that there were no men at the party? or Does it mean that there was no one at the party?

Here does man refer to the gender “man” or “mankind”?

“The chicken is ready to eat” Does this mean that the bird (chicken) is ready to feed on some grains? or Does it mean that the meat is cooked well and is ready to be eaten by a human?

“Google is a great company.” and “Google this word and find its meaning.”

Google is being used as a noun in the first statement and as a verb in the second.

The man saw a girl with a telescope. Did the man use a telescope to see the girl? or Did the man see a girl who was holding a telescope?

Natural language is full of ambiguities. Ambiguity can be referred to as the ability to have more than one meaning or being understood in more than one way. This is a primary reason why NLP is considered hard. Another reason why NLP is hard is that it deals with the extraction of knowledge from unstructured data.

When you realize that waiting for the waiter makes you the waiter.