#13 - Columnist: Computer voice-recognition technology

[Jeff Wren]

Hi Quan,

As Brook mentioned above in post #11, the relation between accurate translation and distinguishing homophones is implied rather than directly stated.

One way to think of the argument is this:

Right now, computer recognition technology can't distinguish between homophones such as "there" and "their." This is obviously a problem and would prevent an accurate written translation unless the problem is fixed.

(Adding in Answer A), In order to fix the problem (i.e. so computers can distinguish homophones), the technology must be able to recognize grammatical and semantic relations among words.

Therefore, the problem won't be solved and translations won't be accurate, until the technology is improved to be able to recognize grammatical and semantic relations among words.

[ashpine17]

I keep getting this question wrong beteeen a and d any advice

[ashpine17]

A and d sound the same to me and for me diagramming isnt the problem i just dont get how to approach these sorts of necessar assumption questions with only one disconnected premise and conclusion

[ashpine17]

So i pivked d because i thought it made more sense like if you cannot distinguish beteeen their and there then it would be difficult to recognize grammatical relations between words

[Stephanie Oswalt]

So i pivked d because i thought it made more sense like if you cannot distinguish beteeen their and there then it would be difficult to recognize grammatical relations between words

Ash, Please refer to page 1 of this this thread. There is a discussion regarding a and d. Thanks!

[ashpine17]

I do not understand how they arrived at AT--->DH--->R is this not necessary assumltion why js sufficicent condition mentioned in the discussion?

[ashpine17]

Am i supposed to conenct the terms based on my understanding of the literal meaning of the elements involved or is tjere a formula incolved because i am having a lot of issues with these sorts of necessary assumption questions that invokve all these moving elements

And are these in any way related to sufficient assumption questions because that question type has linking terms too

[ashpine17]

To me it makes sense to need accurate translation you would need to be able to distinguish homophones otherwise the translation will be incorrect but it's sifficult to tell whether distinguishing homophones is needed to recognize grammatical relationships and semantics or the other way around

[ashpine17]

I did another necessary assumption question that involved linking rogue elements and it looked different: june 07 question 17 LR S3

Why are they different? Hb--->opp sides equally supports HB--->BMD but here it says BMD--->OSE as the answer but why for this question it is AT--->DH supports AT--->R but it is DH--->R and not R--->DH

[Jeff Wren]

Hi ashpine,

It appears from your questions that you may be looking for more help on a variety of key/fundamental ideas that go beyond the answers that we can provide in this forum. Unfortunately, there's only so much we can cover in this forum setting.

If you're not already doing so, I'd recommend that you consider some combination of taking one of PowerScore's LSAT courses, getting private LSAT tutoring, and/ or reading/studying "The Logical Reasoning Bible."

Here are a couple points regarding your questions.

While this is a necessary Assumption question, since it involves conditional reasoning, a discussion of both sufficient and necessary conditional terms is relevant. These are two separate ideas.

The idea that is implied in the argument is that distinguishing homophones is necessary for accurate translations, not that distinguishing homophones is sufficient for accurate translations. In other words, the argument isn't assuming that if you can distinguish homophones, then you are guaranteed to have an accurate translation. This is backwards. It's critical to get this part right because if you get this part backwards, then Answer D (which is also backwards) may appear to be correct.