[Corpora-List] Fwd: examples of the use of the terms "prototypical" or "prototypicality"

[John F Sowa]

On 6/29/2014 3:09 AM, Kevin B. Cohen wrote:
> More from Patrick Hanks, forwarded by his permission.

Thanks for the note and the references.  I agree that Hanks' book
makes a strong case for his theory of norms and exploitations (TNE).
In particular, the following point is well taken:

Hanks, _Lexical Analysis: Norms and Exploitations_, p. 19
> At the time of writing (2010), knowledge-rich approaches to NLP have
> tended to achieve limited success, while knowledge-poor statistical
> approaches have achieved remarkable successes over the preceding two
> or three decades.  This suggests that maybe knowledge-rich approaches
> to linguistic processing have been rich in the wrong kind of knowledge,
> have been based on wrong assumptions, or have lacked reliable foundations.
> It seems likely, however, that sooner or later statistical approaches
> will hit a ceiling and the pendulum will swing back to artificial
> intelligence (AI), involving knowledge about ways in which the intricate
> networks of words in a language are used to represent the world, its
> entities, and its events.  TNE points to a possible integration of
> statistical approaches with representations of linguistic and world knowledge.

John

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