NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING: Some Thoughts about Linguistic Parsing IMAGE: A sliced German text against and tangerine-mauve background. Melissa: Is this the way you process language? Tim: No, but it looks like a good way to process bologna. Liao: Well, maybe language is like bologna in many regards: different semantic chunks are ground up in our consciousness, and the result is a strange medley! Satoru: (unimpressed) Hmm. I think Pythagoras was right in pointing out that silence is often better than words. Melissa: (teasing Satoru) You're such a party pooper! ===================================================================================== from _Crassroom Voices - Poetry, Art, & Dialogs about Education_ by T Newfields SUMMARY: Some verbal and visual reflections on how text is codified and parsed KEYWORDS: linguistic coding, computational meaning, semantic clipping, social discourse Author: T Newfields [Nitta Hirou / Huáng Yuèwǔ] (b. 1955) Begun: 2001 in Nagoya, Japan / Finished: 2018 in Yokohama, Japan Creative Commons License: Attribution. {{CC-BY-4.0}} Granted < LAST http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/dict.htm TOC http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/index.html NEXT > http://www.tnewfields.info/CrassroomVoices/travel.htm