When it comes to the players input, how complex a sentence can the games robots understand?
We’d have to define complexity first. A first-cut definition could be the number of different words, their frequency in a corpus, but especially the way that they combine. When we say Bot Colony will feature unrestricted natural language understanding, we mean it. There are no limits on the words that you can use, and as long as your English is correct, we should be able to deal with it (but that’s already asking a lot!). However, remember there will always be pathological sentences. The classical example in NLP papers is “She saw the man with the telescope.” While this is not a complex sentence, the sentence is a good example of what’s called the PP-attachment problem. PP-attachment means prepositional phrase attachment. In principle, “with the telescope” can attach either to the verb “see,” meaning she used a telescope to see the man, or to “the man,” meaning the man was carrying a telescope. The fact is that both interpretations are possible, and there’s not very much someone can do
