Obviously your sentences are parseable. Millions of humans around the world understand what you are saying.
the usefulness of this didn't dawn on me until I read an interview with Andreg Ng where he talked about the huge amount of voice searches in China. Many adults can't type, so searching with voice is very convenient as opposed to drawing the characters. Many are down right illiterate or young children not old enough to read that much yet.
As an interesting data point, my 2 year old knows how to find my wife's phone now. "Ok Google, find my phone." And wouldn't you know it, the damned phone starts making a noise for her. Both of my kids can use the phone to search things. Neither knows how to write yet and my son is just learning to read. It's amazing to watch how touch screens and voice commands have made high tech accessible to very young children.
> Obviously your sentences are parseable. Millions of humans around the world understand what you are saying.
No, I mean parseable in the way that source code is parsed. I'm not aware of any human language that is parseable by a computer. Humans are able to understand each other because our brains are, loosely speaking, magical.
Thats because natural language is ambiguous. Even simple sentences like " I saw a man on the hill with a telescope" have multiple meanings.
This isn't solved by magic, but pure statistics. Try and ask your friends who has the telescope in the previous sentence and some will say the man and some will say "I". Without context we can't tell, but we can judge which one is more likely given who had the item in previous sentences of similar structure (the prior). Then usually we also have some context.
Now we can add context: "I got a telescope for my birthday and was eager to use it. The next day I saw a man on the hill with my telescope". Now most people would expect the speaker to be looking through the telescope, but the man might have stolen it and taken it to the hill. Even humans have to guess.
the usefulness of this didn't dawn on me until I read an interview with Andreg Ng where he talked about the huge amount of voice searches in China. Many adults can't type, so searching with voice is very convenient as opposed to drawing the characters. Many are down right illiterate or young children not old enough to read that much yet.