12 Problems with Questions and Computational Methods of Diagnosing the Problems 1. There is a word or expression for which very few respondents will know the meaning. Our lexicon will include features that allow QQEA to compute whether or not predicates are relative. The referent of a noun-phrase, noun, or pronoun is unclear or ambiguous. QQEA will have vague and ambiguous nouns flagged in the lexicon.
Ambiguous words have many alternative senses in the lexicon, for example.
The grammatical composition is embedded, dense, or structurally ambiguous. We will examine syntactic parsers that attempt to parse noun phrases, clauses and questions. The number of processing operations and the load on the cognitive system will be evaluated in order to diagnose questions with problematic syntax. It is difficult to understand because the wording is highly embedded, syntactically ambiguous, or structurally dense. If technically feasible, QQEA will identify the problematic syntactic constituents.