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Synonymy: The unbearable ficklness of meaning

2010

Standard definitions of synonymy become problematic under close scrutiny of nouns occurring in two contexts of Italian: clauses with Negative Polarity Items and noun phrases with Complex Nominal Determiners. Such nouns are non-referring expressions, do not carry literal meaning, often give rise to metaphor and intensity, and preclude decomposition into elementary semantic features as conceived in Componential Analysis. The inconsequence of semantic features and a number of syntactic constraints suggest that these nouns are best analyzed as parts of multi-word expressions working as function phrases.

Italian English negative polarity item nominal determiner function/content wordsSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E Linguistica
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Polysemy in Controlled Natural Language Texts

2015

Computational semantics and logic-based controlled natural languages (CNL) do not address systematically the word sense disambiguation problem of content words, i.e., they tend to interpret only some functional words that are crucial for construction of discourse representation structures. We show that micro-ontologies and multi-word units allow integration of the rich and polysemous multi-domain background knowledge into CNL thus providing interpretation for the content words. The proposed approach is demonstrated by extending the Attempto Controlled English (ACE) with polysemous and procedural constructs resulting in a more natural CNL named PAO covering narrative multi-domain texts.

FOS: Computer and information sciencesComputer Science - Computation and LanguageInterpretation (logic)Computer sciencebusiness.industryRepresentation (arts)Content wordcomputer.software_genrelanguage.human_languageControlled natural languageComputational semanticslanguageAttempto Controlled EnglishArtificial intelligencePolysemybusinessComputation and Language (cs.CL)computerNatural languageNatural language processing
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Event-related potential indicators of text integration across sentence boundaries.

2007

An event-related potentials (ERPs) study examined word-to-text integration processes across sentence boundaries. In a two-sentence passage, the accessibility of a referent for the first content word of the second sentence (the target word) was varied by the wording of the first sentence in one of the following ways: lexically (explicitly using a form of the target word); conceptually (using a paraphrase of the target word), and situationally (encouraging an inference concerning the referent of the target word). A baseline condition had no coreference between the two sentences. ERP results on the target word indicated multiple effects related to word identification and word-to-referent mappi…

AdultMaleLinguistics and LanguagePhraseAdolescentExperimental and Cognitive Psychologycomputer.software_genreReferentVocabularyLanguage and LinguisticsParaphraseCognitionHumansEvoked PotentialsLanguageBrain MappingCoreferencebusiness.industryBrainLinguisticsContent wordLinguisticsWord recognitionFemaleArtificial intelligencebusinessPsychologycomputerSentenceNatural language processingWord orderJournal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
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