Relevance of Meaning, Semantic Dispositions, and Text Coherence Modelling Reader Expectations from Natural Language Discourse

Relevance of meaning is deened to be a variable, aspect dependent relation of word-meaning and/or world-knowledge representations which form dynamic structures of semantic dispositions. These will be introduced to model the expectations which | other than the widely recognized linear/syntagmatic/ referential forms of text-connectedness (connexity/cohesion) | can be derived from the discourses' less accepted associative/paradigmatic/sense-relational properties, i.e. the more dynamic means of textuality (coherence). Involving interpreters' knowledge of word-meanings/world-structures activated, a procedure is given for the empirical reconstruction of their representation and relevant organisation. The notion of textuality has been the core domain of interest and research in textlinguistics for some time now. As such, it has widely become accepted to be analysable under mainly two aspects which allow to isolate sets of properties of essentially two kinds: those that can be observed to structure the linear arrangements of language elements, constituting a text-sequence's connexity and/or cohesion by more or less overt linguistic indicators, and those others that can be assigned only This paper presents some of the results of a project in Computational Semantics of the MESY-grant IV A 2-FA 8600 is concerned with the development of means for the automatic construction of fuzzy semantic and associative knowledge representation systems from natural language discourse input. Although central aspects have been reported in other papers in more detail, they had to be taken up in some parts here again in order to allow recent developments and conceptions which have been derived from them in view of textlinguistic problems to be understood in their proper context.