Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ccivax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!rochester!rocksvax!ritcv!ccivax!abh From: abh@ccivax.UUCP (Andrew X. Hudson) Newsgroups: net.flame,net.nlang,net.ai Subject: Re: On having virtually no crime rate. Message-ID: <195@ccivax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Aug-84 13:46:31 EDT Article-I.D.: ccivax.195 Posted: Wed Aug 15 13:46:31 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 20-Aug-84 01:40:52 EDT References: <472@hou2d.UUCP> Organization: CCI Telephony Systems Group, Roch, NY Lines: 16 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 -- "Freedom of choice is what you got Freedom from choice is what you want" - DEVO ...[rlgvax | decvax | ucbvax!allegra]!rochester!ritcv!ccivax!abh