Resolving Semantic Ambiguity

✍ Scribed by Andrea Bubka, David S. Gorfein (auth.), David S. Gorfein (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 341
• Series: Cognitive Science
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Resolving Semantic Ambiguity arrrays the work of leading theorists on the issues surrounding the meaning and interpretation of ambiguous text. The chapters are organized around three major themes: (1) retrieval, (2) representation of words, and (3) text as a context. The book offers a number of new challenges to the role of context in language processing, some striking new evidence on the repetition of homographs in different contexts, and new approaches to resolution capable of being incorporated into either modular or network models. In several papers the problem of ambiguity is extended to include the problem of weak ambiguity and understanding text themes. The book provides a unique starting point for researchers approaching the problems of meaning in cognitive science, psychology, and computational linguistics.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Resolving Semantic Ambiguity: An Introduction....Pages 3-12
Varieties of Ambiguity: What Are We Seeking?....Pages 13-21
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
What’s in a Context?....Pages 25-39
Dynamic Contextual Processes and Lexical Access....Pages 40-56
When Does “Soar” Become “Sore”? Some Comments on the Chapter of Simpson and Kellas....Pages 57-62
Lexical Ambiguity and Context: An Activation-Suppression Model....Pages 63-83
A Context-Sensitive Frequency-Based Theory of Meaning Achievement....Pages 84-106
Front Matter....Pages 107-107
Accessing the Bilingual Lexicon....Pages 109-125
On Knowing How Many Entries....Pages 126-145
Systematicity and Semantic Ambiguity....Pages 146-203
Some Ambiguities in the Study of Ambiguity....Pages 204-222
Front Matter....Pages 223-223
On the Comprehension of Lexical Ambiguity by Young Children: Investigations into the Development of Mental Modularity....Pages 225-238
Disambiguation and Cognitive Control....Pages 239-251
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Computational Models of Ambiguity Resolution....Pages 255-275
Reflexions on Modularity and Connectionism....Pages 276-293
Back Matter....Pages 294-337

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)