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On Monday, a government agency that the Obama administration -- but that is probably the National Security Agency -- added to a standard blackberry a super-encryption package.... and Obama WILL be able to use it ... still for routine and personal messages.

Whoa. Someone needs coffee before writing their blog posts. Does not parse.



You should apt-get install probabilistic-parser. (do probabilistic parsers exist by the way?)


Yes, actually. Perl uses one to handle cases of ambiguous syntax, where it's possible to "guess" the correct parse quite reliably from the surrounding context, but it's impossible to infer the true meaning simply by looking at the line by itself. (Thankfully, this technique is rare if you're writing clean code, and as far as I know, it's gone from Perl 6.)


http://www.google.de/search?q=probabilistic+parser

At least some people are writing papers about them.




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