TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding novel language
AU - DeJong, Gerald F.
AU - Waltz, David L.
N1 - Funding Information:
+This work was supported in part by the Office of Naval Research under Contract NOOO14-75-C-0612, and in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants NSF IST 81-17238 and NSF IST 81-20254.
PY - 1983
Y1 - 1983
N2 - In this article we treat in some detail the problem of designing mechanisms that will allow us to deal with two types of novel language: (1) text requiring scheme learning; and (2) the understanding of novel metaphorical use of verbs. Schema learning is addressed by four types of processes: schema composition, secondary effect elevation, schema alteration, and volitionalization. The processing of novel metaphors depends on a decompositional analysis of verbs into "event shape diagrams," along with a matching process that uses semantic marker-like information, to construct novel meaning structures. The examples we describe have been chosen to be types that occur commonly, so that rules that we need to understand them can also be used to understand a much wider range of novel language.
AB - In this article we treat in some detail the problem of designing mechanisms that will allow us to deal with two types of novel language: (1) text requiring scheme learning; and (2) the understanding of novel metaphorical use of verbs. Schema learning is addressed by four types of processes: schema composition, secondary effect elevation, schema alteration, and volitionalization. The processing of novel metaphors depends on a decompositional analysis of verbs into "event shape diagrams," along with a matching process that uses semantic marker-like information, to construct novel meaning structures. The examples we describe have been chosen to be types that occur commonly, so that rules that we need to understand them can also be used to understand a much wider range of novel language.
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U2 - 10.1016/0898-1221(83)90012-3
DO - 10.1016/0898-1221(83)90012-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0020499065
SN - 0898-1221
VL - 9
SP - 131
EP - 147
JO - Computers and Mathematics with Applications
JF - Computers and Mathematics with Applications
IS - 1
ER -