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

[Phil Gooch]

My understanding of prototypes was more about the s-v-o patterns in which
the more central categories tend to appear, e.g.

{Person} fire {Person}
{Person} fire {Weapon}

and the interesting exceptions, e.g. Eastenders speak, {Person} fire
{Building} e.g. 'Frank Butcher fired the car lot to get the insurance
money', 'Didn't he also fire the Queen Vic?'

Phil


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 4:33 AM, John F Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:

> 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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