Why does an automatically generated syntactic parser fail when analyzing a legal corpus filled with exceptionally long, complex sentences?

💡 Explanation

The parser fails because excessive constituent ambiguity (multiple possible parses) stresses the decision-making process of the parser beyond its designed threshold, thereby producing errors. This occurs because legal texts often have complex, nested structures; therefore, ambiguity resolution fails, rather than lexical frequencies or N-gram inadequacy being the primary issue.

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