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Lexical Ambiguity Resolution
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Lexical Ambiguity Resolution

by Steven L. Small, Garrison W Cottrell, Michael K Tanenhaus
October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
16h 20m
English
Morgan Kaufmann
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Chapter 1

Word Expert Parsing Revisited in a Cognitive Science Perspective

Geert Adriaens,     Siemens AI Research, Leuven, Belgium

Steven L Small1,     Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester

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This chapter discusses word expert parsing from the perspective of cognitive science. It additionally describes the general principles, representations and implementation of a computational model of natural language understanding—the Word Expert Parser—that attaches great importance to lexical ambiguity resolution. The chapter also discusses its flaws and merits as a model to understand human language. The greatest flaws are: (1) the absence of an implemented large-scale semantic network, (2) the absence of important ...

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ISBN: 9780934613507