CSCI 587 - Solutions to Assignment 1 Natural Language Overview


Date: Jan 16, 1997
Date Due: Jan 23, 1997
  1. Page 18 #1 ELIZA
    Word         Rank    Pattern           Outputs
    alike         10       ?X              In what way?
    always         5       ?X              Can you think ...
    made           3    my ?X made me ?Y   your ?X made you ?Y
    I'm depressed  9       ?X              I am sorry to hear that 
    says           2       ?X says ?Y      Why do you think that ?X says this?
    I am unhappy   9        ?X             Do you think coming here ...
    need           5        need [some] ?X What would it mean if you got some ?X?
    mother         2        ?X             Tell me more about your family
    
  2. Page 18 #2b
    "He drew one card." semantic ambiguity of the verb "drew".
    1) He took one card from the deck.
    2) He used a pencil to sketch a card.
    
  3. Page 18 #3
    3a syntactically incorrect
    3b pragmatically
    3c sematically and pragmatically
    
  4. Page 37 #1
    Tests:
    Tn: I saw the X.
    Ta: It's so X.
    Tc: How many X(s)?   Tc = count noun test
    Tm: There is some X. Tm = mass noun test
    
            Tn  Ta  Tc  Tm
    milk    +   -   -   +
    house   +   -   +   -
    liquid  +   +   +   +
    green   +   +   +   +    (green as in golf green and green as in money)
    group   +   -   +   -
    concept +   -   +   -
    airborne+   +   -   +    (airbourne as in paratrooper)