Natural language processing: Difference between revisions

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Some problems which make NLP difficult:

; [[Word boundary detection]] : In spoken language, there are no gaps between words; where to place the word boundary often depends on what choice makes the most sense gramaticallygrammatically and given the context.

; [[Word sense disambiguation]] : Any given word can have several different meanings; we have to select the meaning which makes the most sense in context.

; [[Syntactic ambiguity]] : The [[grammar]] for [[natural language]]s is not [[unambiguous grammar|unambiguous]], i.e. there are often multiple possible parse trees for a given sentence. Choosing the correct one usually requires [[semantics|semantic]] and contextually information.