Knowledge Structures and Language Boundaries

Wilks, Yorick

Knowledge Structures and Language Boundaries

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Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 151-156.

Abstract

The paper discusses the incorporation of richer semantic structures into the Preference Semantics system: they are called pseudo-texts and capture something of the information expressed in one type of frame proposed by Minsky (q.v.). However, ' they are in a format, and subject to rules of inference, consistent with earlier accounts of this system of language analysis and understanding. Their use is discussed in connection with the phenomenon of extended use: sentences where the semantic preferences are broken. It is argued that such situations are the norm and not the exception in normal language use, and that a language understanding system must give some general treatment of them.

Yorick Wilks. 1977. Knowledge Structures and Language Boundaries. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-77. IJCAI, 151–156. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/32

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