tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3395824327350140431..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: Quickies: A Problem In Natural-Language ProcessingFrancis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-63992693822646668452018-10-17T16:50:05.923-04:002018-10-17T16:50:05.923-04:00As an associate attorney in a sweatshop law firm, ...As an associate attorney in a sweatshop law firm, my mentoring partner would poke his head into my office on Friday and say, "Here are a couple of new files, luckily we have two working days till Monday when I need the Initial File Review letter to go out."<br /><br />There was only one way to interpret this statement. I was working 12 days through the weekend. <br /><br />The "we" was royal, and I was working, he was not. How we interpret language matters. <br /><br />Mark ShermanMaddoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06318012896682699972noreply@blogger.com