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Sure, you can get pretty far with a fairly simple solution. But lot of the time, you get two (or more) ways to split the string into dictionary words. For a simple English example, is it "justice was served" or "just ice was served"?

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I guess that’s where context will have to be considered. Those two are valid sentences, so presumably humans are using context to distinguish between them, right?

The murderer came to my dinner party, and I had it all planned. In one of the ice cubes, I had frozen arsenic. The murderer would eat the same food, drink the same drink, and nobody would guess that they would die on leaving. When the evening was over, I knew what I would tell people.

Justicehadbeenserved.

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If you would like to, feel free. For myself, I think that the comment's context of showing how ambiguity may not be resolved merely be contextual information is important, and that it would not stand as strongly without it.

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