{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Interpretation as Exception Minimization","authors":[{"name":"Joachim Quantz","slug":"joachim-quantz","given":"Joachim","family":"Quantz","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Ambiguity is a notorious problem for Natural Language Processing. According to results obtained by Schmitz and Quantz I see disambiguation as a process in which contextual defaults are used to derive the most preferred interpretation of an expression. I show how contextual information comprising grammatical as well as conceptual knowledge can be modeled in a homogeneous manner using Terminological Logics (TL). I slightly modify the default extension to TL presented by Quantz and Royer to allow a relevance ordering between multi sets of defaults. The preferred interpretation is the one containing the fewest exceptions with respect to such an ordering. Interpretation is thus achieved by exception minimization. I combine this idea with deductive and abductive approaches to interpretation and show how they can be formalized in terms ofTL entailment. Furthermore, I obtain a variable depth of analysis by controling the granularity of interpretation via a set of relevant features.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/181","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/0181.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/181.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/bibtex/181","volume":{"slug":"1993","title":"Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1993","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1993/","year":1993,"location":"Chambéry, France","dates":"","editors":"Ruzena Bajcsy","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":181,"pages":{"first":1310,"last":1317},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}