for reasons that are far too boring to go into ive been reading up on natural language processing and came across this conundrum:
The sentence “I never said she stole my money” demonstrates the importance stress can play in a sentence, and thus the inherent difficulty a natural language processor can have in parsing it. Depending on which word the speaker places the stress, this sentence could have several distinct meanings:
* “I never said she stole my money” – Someone else said it, but I didn’t.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I simply didn’t ever say it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I might have implied it in some way, but I never explicitly said it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said someone took it; I didn’t say it was she.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I just said she probably borrowed it.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said she stole someone else’s money.
* “I never said she stole my money” – I said she stole something of mine, but not my money.
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