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Teaching a machine to read a sentence without it bursting into flames.
means Breaking text or data into structured pieces a computer can understand and act on.
from From Latin pars orationis, 'part of speech' — grammar drills survived into computer science, where machines now diagram our sentences for us.
School rootsOriginally labeling each word's grammatical role.
Failure modeOne stray comma can crash the whole thing.
EverywhereBrowsers, compilers, and dates all parse constantly.