Scope ambiguity in natural language?

Scope ambiguity refers to the order of precedence of quantifiers (words like "a", "the", "each", "some", "every", "all", "one" etc. ) in a natural language sentence.

Scope ambiguity refers to the order of precedence of quantifiers (words like "a", "the", "each", "some", "every", "all", "one" etc. ) in a natural language sentence. For example, consider this sentence: "The dog brings me the newspaper every morning". You know that the sentence parses as: "Exists DOG d ( Foreach MORNING m ( Exists NEWSPAPER n ( d brings n during m ) ) )".

In other words, every morning, the newspaper is different. But a computer program might instead interpret the sentence to mean "Exists DOG d ( Exists NEWSPAPER n ( Foreach MORNING m ( d brings n during m ) ) )" - in other words, there is one old newspaper that you haven't thrown away, and every morning, the dog brings it to you. Resolving scope ambiguity, as far as I know, is very much an unsolved problem.

1, especially for a very interesting example – Falaina Jul 27 '09 at 3:44.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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