Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why?
by cfmcdonald on Sunday January 08, 2017 @02:05AM
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How can it be semantically important yet not matter? There are in fact languages where word order is very free, but English is not one of them. e..g. "Bob shot Alice" is very different from "Alice shot Bob". Which noun you place an adjective next to doesn't matter? So "The dumb teacher taught the student" means the same thing as "The teacher taught the dumb student"?
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Re:King – man + woman is queen; but why?
by candiodari on Sunday January 08, 2017 @05:57AM
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No, it means that in the majority of cases the context is clear regardless of the word order, so a neural network can learn the meaning despite jumbling the word order.
"attacks mouse cat"
"attacks cat mouse"
"cat attacks mouse"
"cat mouse attacks"
"mouse cat attacks"
Only "cat mouse attacks" could mean something that's even slightly different.