Prostitutes Appeal to Pope: Text Analytics applied to Search by Tony Russell-Rose.
It is hard for me to visit Tony’s site and not come away with several posts he has written that I want to mention. Today was no different.
Here is a sampling of what Tony talks about in this post:
Consider the following newspaper headlines, all of which appeared unambiguous to the original writer:
- DRUNK GETS NINE YEARS IN VIOLIN CASE
- PROSTITUTES APPEAL TO POPE
- STOLEN PAINTING FOUND BY TREE
- RED TAPE HOLDS UP NEW BRIDGE
- DEER KILL 300,000
- RESIDENTS CAN DROP OFF TREES
- INCLUDE CHILDREN WHEN BAKING COOKIES
- MINERS REFUSE TO WORK AFTER DEATH
Although humorous, they illustrate much of the ambiguity in natural language, and just how much pragmatic and linguistic knowledge must be employed by NLP tools to function accurately.
A very informative and highly amusing post.
What better way to start the week?
Enjoy!