LINGUIST List 20.657
Tue Mar 03 2009
Diss: Semantics: Bangha: 'La place des connaissances lexicales face...'
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1. Kornel
Bangha,
La place des connaissances lexicales face aux connaissances du monde dans le processus d'interprétation des énoncés/Study of the Role of Lexical Knowledge versus World Knowledge in the Process of Interpretation of Statements
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Date: 02-Mar-2009
From: Kornel Bangha <kornelbanghagmail.com>
Subject: La place des connaissances lexicales face aux connaissances du monde dans le processus d'interprétation des énoncés/Study of the Role of Lexical Knowledge versus World Knowledge in the Process of Interpretation of Statements
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Institution: Université de Montréal
Program: Linguistics
Dissertation Status: Completed
Degree Date: 2003
Author: Kornel Bangha
Dissertation Title: La place des connaissances lexicales face aux connaissances du monde dans le processus d'interprétation des énoncés/Study of the Role of Lexical Knowledge versus World Knowledge in the Process of Interpretation of Statements
Linguistic Field(s):
Semantics
Dissertation Director:
Alain Polguère
Dissertation Abstract:
The aim of this research is, on one hand, general, and on the other hand,specific. The general aim is to study to what extent the process ofinterpretation of statements is based on lexical knowledge rather than onworld knowledge. We are particularly interested in knowing to what extentthe knowledge needed for interpretation is part of the language. Thisquestion being too general to be properly researched, it was necessary tolook at it from a more limited angle: the interpretation of definiteexpressions - this is our specific aim.
Besides its theoretical interest, this is also an essential issue inNatural Language Processing where computers need a great deal of knowledge.In order to provide the necessary knowledge to computers, we first need toexamine what this knowledge consists of, what role it plays. However, froma computational point of view, the most important point is not to know howhuman interpretation works but rather to determine what piece of knowledgeis needed for any linguistic task.
First of all, we make a clear distinction between world knowledge andlinguistic knowledge. After that, we present the framework of this study:the Explanatory Combinatorial Lexicology. An entire chapter is concernedabout the notion of interpretation. At the end, we conduct a studydedicated to definite expressions and we analyse a corpus of twelve texts.
The conclusion of our study is that linguistic knowledge (and particularlylexical functions) together with the information contained in the texts weanalysed, can grant us most of the knowledge needed for the interpretationof definite expressions.
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