Scaling Cognitive Linguistics: Formalisms for Language Understanding
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چکیده
Research in cognitive linguistics has yielded valuable semantic and pragmatic insights that should be incorporated by language understanding systems. These insights have not been expressed in a rigorous enough form to be implemented. We provide a unified formalism for representing four conceptual primitives: schemas, constructions, mental spaces, and maps. These primitives are motivated by the cognitive linguistics literature and can serve as the basis for scalable deep understanding systems.
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