The Sentences Computers Can't Understand, But Humans Can

The Winograd schema is a language test for intelligent computers. So far, they're not doing well. MORE LANGUAGE FILES:    • Tom's Language Files  


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REFERENCES:

Levesque, H.J., Davis, E., and Morgenstern, L. (2011). The winograd schema challenge. In
AAAI Spring Symposium: Logical Formalizations of Commonsense Reasoning.
Trask, R. (1993). A dictionary of grammatical terms in linguistics. London ; New York: Routledge. (page 233)
Winograd, T. (1972). Understanding natural language. Cognitive Psychology, 3(1), 1-191. (page 33)
Hunston, S. (2002). Corpora in Applied Linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Jurafsky, D., & Martin, J. (2009). Speech and language processing: An introduction to natural language processing, computational linguistics, and speech recognition (2nd ed., Prentice Hall series in artificial intelligence). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Pearson Prentice Hall.
Gray, M. & Suri, S. (2019) Ghost work. Boston, M.A.: HMH Books.

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