[Corpora-List] Re: similarity

[Mike Maxwell]

Eric Atwell wrote:
> Some linguists might say that a sentence can have more than one
> structure. I prefer the "pro-corpus" stance that a sentence should
> not be parsed
> in isolation but that even for sentence-syntax you need to take
> context into account; and that a sentence will have only one parse
> depending on context (except for comparatively rare cases of
> deliberate ambiguity, eg in jokes/puns)

Surely this is nothing more than a terminological difference?  'Parse' =
'possible parse in general' vs. 'acceptable parse in context'...

     Mike Maxwell
     Linguistic Data Consortium
     maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu