MORE ON UNDERSTANDING UNDERSTANDING UTTERANCES.
Abstract
The question as to how hearers are able to understand correctly utterances containing polysemous words can be clarified by considering what would be involved in providing an automation with a comparable ability to resolve polysemy. It is clear that such an automation would have to be able to analyze utterances syntactically and to ascertain whether any of certain standard discourse operators had been applied in the generation of an utterance, e.g., operators corresponding to tropes, nonce usage, etc. But there are a number of other factors that impinge upon the resolution of polysemy. One of these pertains to coherence in discourse, another to matters of general belief. As an approach to dealing with these additional factors, a vectorial analysis of word senses and a new relation of logical implication are proposed. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 08, 1966
- Accession Number
- AD0635203
Entities
People
- Paul Ziff
Organizations
- System Development Corporation