Re: on the meaning of 'word sense'

John Nerbonne (nerbonne@let.rug.nl)
Tue, 2 May 1995 07:35:16 +0200 (METDST)

Ted Dunning writes:
> the fact is that most humans have very great difficulty performing
> sense disambiguation. doesn't this seriously bring into whether the
> task is pertinent to language processing?

You might do me and other computational linguists a service by
summarizing the psychological evidence you're referring to
(and providing a reference or two to get started). What sorts of
distinctions do humans find difficult to make? --Surely not all
lexical-semantic distinctions, or we'd never understand much of
anything.

--John Nerbonne

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