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The meaning of a sentence is rarely obvious. | The meaning of a sentence is rarely obvious. | ||
[[Compositionality]] argues it starts with the combination of the meanings of its constituents, | |||
and it's a good start, | |||
but most sentences in most languages go beyond that, in fact even a lot of phrases already fall outside that. | |||
This makes the process of understanding natural language a lot more interesting and complex, | |||
almost necesarily involving a somewhat creative intention to resolve, and the field and angle of semantics quite necessary. | |||
For example, polysemy means a word may have different meanings, so even if the use of this signifier is unambiguous, | |||
word sense disambiguation is still required to know what is signified, to map lexical units to meaning. | |||
This is subject to various kinds of contextual forces. It is also regularly made more complex by things like [[metaphor]]ic use, [[metonym]]s, various [[figures of speech]], and other non-literal meanings. | |||
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Many other interpretive aspects are introduced. For example, ''active zones'' {{comment|(fuzzier than it being a term suggests)}} refer to the fact that when actors act, it is usually some part and not the whole of them matters to the particular interaction. Verbs, specific use, and context will imply active zones (consider seeing, hitting, etc.), and helps disambiguate senses. | Many other interpretive aspects are introduced. For example, ''active zones'' {{comment|(fuzzier than it being a term suggests)}} refer to the fact that when actors act, it is usually some part and not the whole of them matters to the particular interaction. Verbs, specific use, and context will imply active zones (consider seeing, hitting, etc.), and helps disambiguate senses. | ||
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==Ambiguity== | ==Ambiguity== | ||
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Most any natural language is ambiguous at every level. Consider: | Most any natural language is ambiguous at every level. Consider: | ||
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Some of these certainly matter to interpreting tasks, like [[coreference resolution]], and [[word embeddings]] choosing among its options. | |||
Statistical models are often used as a way of resolving a likely interpretation, | |||
with more simpler-to-build models than fully interpreting / perceptually accurate models. | |||
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==Compositionality== | ==Compositionality== | ||
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Compositionality roughly means that the meaning of a non-trivial expression (word, phrase) is (fully) determined by its parts and the means of combination. | Compositionality roughly means that the meaning of a non-trivial expression (word, phrase) is (fully) determined by its parts and the means of combination. | ||
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==Rhetoric== | ==Rhetoric== | ||
===Figures of speech=== | ===Figures of speech=== | ||
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See [[Figures of speech]] | See [[Figures of speech]] | ||
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==Unsorted== | ==Unsorted== | ||
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construal/conceptualization, and | construal/conceptualization, and | ||
syntactic accommodation | syntactic accommodation | ||
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==See also== | ==See also== | ||
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech | * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_of_speech | ||
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[[Category:Linguistics]] | [[Category:Linguistics]] | ||
[[Category:Analytical linguistics]] | [[Category:Analytical linguistics]] | ||
[[Category:Semantics]] | [[Category:Semantics]] | ||
[[Category:Pragmatics]] | [[Category:Pragmatics]] | ||
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