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Not only that, but even if you were to get 100% word accuracy, context is still important for choosing between multiple possible meanings.

As an example, I was being directed by Google Maps to a new place, and I asked it "What is the ETA?" It responded, "From Wikipedia, the estimated time of arrival or ETA is the time when a ship, vehicle, aircraft, cargo or emergency service is expected to arrive at a certain place." It was a completely valid answer to the question, but not one that any human would give.




I think you give humans too much credit. If it were so, this joke[0] wouldn't be funny.

s/Microsoft/Google/g s/Seattle/Mountain View/g

[0] http://alunthomasevans.blogspot.com/2007/10/old-microsoft-jo...


Humans make those mistakes too. Once, while talking to somebody about money, I asked "do you know what inflation is?", meaning what the rate is,to help make a decision, but they were offended and replied that yes, of course they knew what the concept meant.

Having a "the" in there like you did should remove ambiguity though. I guess Google Maps defers to Wikipedia when it doesn't know what a term means.




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