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M14.1 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Words, structure, meaning, and context

"Dog bites man" and "man bites dog" use the same three words. See why order, ambiguity, and context make language hard for machines, and how to test for it.

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Lesson overview

"Dog bites man" and "man bites dog" use the same three words. See why order, ambiguity, and context make language hard for machines, and how to test for it.

What you’ll explore

  • Distinguish order, reference, ambiguity, and prediction in a concrete language example.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

Speech and Language Processing, 3rd edition draft (Jurafsky & Martin)A collection of Winograd schemas (Ernest Davis, NYU), from the challenge proposed by Levesque, Davis & Morgenstern (2012)Dive into Deep Learning — language models
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