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Christopher Manning: Linguistics and the Development of NLP

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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Human Languages Are Massively Ambiguous

Human languages are massively ambiguous most of the time in conversation people just don't notice the ambiguities of what people are saying. English and in general language is a full of prepositional phrases like with a knife they're ambiguous as to what they modify so that if you have a sentence like I bought a cake with my sentence going to be  I bought a Cake with My Wallet then there's one reading where the wallet is.

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