I wonder how many general purpose parsers are able to handle a sentence like:
I feel you and you feel me
The difficulty here is 2 folded: the you and the and. Is you a personal object or subject pronoun and what does the and combine. Basically, do we mean ‘I feel you’ and ‘you feel me’ or ‘I feel’ and ‘you and you feel me’.
Here’s what aici currently makes of it:
Oh, and it’s melting hot at the moment
I feel you and you feel me.
By the rules of English grammar, this is a compound sentence, with the 2 sentences
sentence1: I feel you
sentence2: You feel me
I’m not sure why you’d consider it to be [I feel] [you and you feel me].
There would have to be a period after the [I feel]. Also, why would you have 2 subject nouns identical in the second sentence, you and you.
Link | August 7th, 2010 at 14:15
Indeed, by the rules of English, there is only 1 way to interpret this sentence. However, the difficulty comes from the fact that the parser can also recognise something like: ‘you and I feel’ or ‘you and I feel and my sister and your brother don’t', ‘my and your car are black’,… . The point is that the parser can correctly figure out how ‘and’ is used in the sentence, what it should put together: at the level of the subject, the sentence,…. This isn’t always possible using parser generators like coco, bison,..
I put up this example cause it is the furthest up the parse tree: at the level of the sentence. This also showed that the system can deal with multiple sub sentences in 1 big sentence.
Link | August 7th, 2010 at 14:35