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← Language & CommunicationA large-scale sentiment analysis system misclassifies nuanced sarcastic statements because its parser incorrectly handles subordinate clauses. Which mechanism explains this failure?
A)Lexical ambiguity overwhelms statistical classifiers.
B)Syntactic misinterpretation degrades semantic extraction.✓
C)Semantic satiation attenuates feature recognition.
D)Phonological interference disrupts word segmentation.
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The sentiment analysis fails because the syntax parsing mechanism misinterprets the structure of sentences with sarcasm; the system fails to capture the reversed polarity in subordinate clauses. Therefore, syntactic misinterpretation causes incorrect semantic extraction, rather than issues of lexical ambiguity or phonological interference.
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