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From: abh@ccivax.UUCP (Andrew X. Hudson)
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Subject: Re: On having virtually no crime rate.
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Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 13:46:31 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 15 13:46:31 1984
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This kind of sentence structure is highly dependent upon
perspective and context. If a problem is found on first parse
perhaps a simple substitution by synonym would do the trick.
In this case substituting 'nearly' for 'virtually' would do the trick.
Contextually, though, the program would have to know that rates
are for numerical comparison. In which case one of the better
semantic results might be "nearly no crime rate in comparison."
The reasons for which people interpret the same written words
would be an interesting endeavor.

				Andrew Hudson
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