[Corpora-List] ANC, FROWN, Fuzzy Logic

[Ken Litkowski]

Leaving aside the compression of language via grammar rules, I am 
continually in awe at the process that goes on in the lexicon.  As a 
computational lexicologist, I work with electronic dictionaries 
(particularly with Oxford's latest) that are the distillation or 
compression of rules about individual words.  These distillations are 
fraught with complexity, as witness the previous assertions about their 
inutility for computational purposes.  As Patrick Hanks has so 
wonderfully articulated, any instantiation of a word's use represents an 
activation of only selected components of a word's (fuzzy) meaning 
(largely indicated by the context).  But this only covers the analysis. 
  When I generate, I feel very much as if my use of a particular word 
may change from one draft of a paper to the next, i.e., my whole 
semantic network of associations changes from day to day.  The rules for 
generation seem so much more complex, but those who study such matters 
have developed many.  My parsing and analysis is, by comparison, so much 
easier (but still only a tad successful).
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