nlp-sentence-ambiguity-thousands-of-parses

Summary

A sentence that reads fine to a person can be broken down in thousands of grammatically correct ways, and nearly all of those ways would make no sense to a reader. This means any system trying to understand language cannot rely on grammar rules alone to find the intended meaning; it needs context, world knowledge, and statistical cues to cut through the ambiguity and land on the one interpretation a human actually meant.