Understanding Natural Languages
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In the text we briefly discussed the problems of understanding natural languages as opposed to formal programming languages. As an example of the complexities involved in the case of natural languages, identify situations in which the question "Do you know what time it is?" has different meanings.
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Situations in which the question "Do you know what time it is?" has different meanings are identified.
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The way language is used has to do with the context - there is no speech without a context. For ...
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