keynote lecture 4
Who decides what a text means?: Keynote lecture 4 at ICON 2009, at IIIT Hyderabad, by Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto, Toronto.
Abstract
Writer-based and reader-based views of text-meaning are reflected by the respective questions "What is the author trying to tell me?" and "What does this text mean to me personally?" Contemporary computational linguistics, however, generally takes neither view. But this is not adequate for the development of sophisticated applications such as intelligence gathering and question answering. I will discuss different views of text-meaning from the perspective of the needs of computational text analysis and the collaborative repair of misunderstanding.
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