ambiugous sentences

[Peter <pnewman1 -at- optonline -dot- net>]

While doing some AI studies of parsing engines I ran across some
interesting sentences:

The major generals loved baked lasagna
a)  The generals loved a major, and that major baked lasagna
b)  A particular category of generals, namely major generals loved
lasagna when the lasagna was baked.

The grammatically correct classic:
The horse run past the barn fell.

It parses to:
        "George ran the black horse past the barn"
        "He also ran the brown horse past the house"
        "One horse fell down"

Tech writing tie in. These parsing engines are sometimes used in resume
scanning programs. 


-- 
Peter - With nothing better to do an a Sunday afternoon.
(good thing my wife didn't see this.)


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