It would be equally valid to assume that John was not in the photograph.

The man in the picture is the man with the telescope that John saw.

Of course, if the only context is a photograph, then a perl based text manipulating program won't have access to that context, so saying that the program failed to disambiguate the text is wrong.

Another human being who cannot see the photograph would be similarly unable to perform the impossible.

Examine what is said, not who speaks.
"Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham
"Think for yourself!" - Abigail

In reply to Re: The (futile?) quest for an automatic paraphrase engine by BrowserUk
in thread The (futile?) quest for an automatic paraphrase engine by dimar

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