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title: "Shifting Meaning Representations"
authors:
  - "Karen Sparck Jones"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/146"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0146.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "621-622"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Shifting Meaning Representations

Karen Sparck Jones

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 621-622.

## Abstract

This paper argues that a number of different kinds of meaning representation, between which partial translations can be made as needed, are all required for a reasonably comprehensive language processing system. These representations capture different and possibly complementary aspects of a text's form, content and reference worlds, and are sui ted to different subtasks of the language processor. Initial testing of the proposition via a system designed for natural language access to databases is described, showing how different types of meaning representation with different characteristics are called for, related, and used.