Media: Cognitive Scientists Study Ambiguity in Language
| Submitter: |
Brent Woo
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| Submitter Email: | bwoo@linguistlist.org |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Cognitive Science |
| Media Body: |
A new cognitive science study examines ambiguity in language. They conclude that resolving ambiguity by inference is “cognitively cheaper” than having a longer utterance with exact meaning. They discuss implications of ambiguity for NLP. Read more: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-cognitive-scientists- problem- human-language.html |
| Issue Number: | 23.337 |
| Date Posted: | January 19, 2012 |
