Understanding novel language
This paper treats in some detail the problem of designing mechanisms that will allow one to deal with two types of novel language: (1) text requiring scheme learning; and (2) the understanding of novel metaphorical use of verbs. Schema learning is addressed by four types of processes: scheme composition, secondary effect elevation, schema alteration, and volitionalization. The processing of novel metaphors depends on a decompositional analysis of verbs into event shape diagrams, along with a matching process that uses semantic marker-like information, to construct novel meaning structures. The examples described have been chosen to be types that occur commonly, so that rules that are needed to understand them can also be used to understand a much wider range of novel language. 38 references.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 5290596
- Journal Information:
- Comput. Math. Appl.; (United States), Vol. 1
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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