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Watch a machine-learning system parse the grammatical structure of sentences

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Seems to fall for a lot of easy traps. Garden path sentences ("The old man the boats" or "The horse raced past the barn fell") are parsed wrong, and it parses the two sentences/phrases "When he did that I laughed" and "When he said that I laughed" identically - by interpreting "that" as a preposition in both cases, which it isn't. It's cool that it parses on the fly. But unless it parses correctly I don't see how it…

These require a system which either backtracks or recognizes it's made a mistake and corrects it. I know how to do that with a rule-based parser. It also fails on "British left waffles on Falklands." While there are two syntactic parsers for that, one of them borders on the absurd and should be rejected. The problem is that to parse some sentences requires understanding of the words and phrases it reads, which in tur…

Well, that is just choosing the semantically correct parse from multiple syntactically correct parses. This parser isn't even finding syntactically correct parses.
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