other,11-2-P82-1035,bq |
natural language texts
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e.g. ,
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|
memos
|
</term>
, rough
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drafts
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,
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|
#12985
However, a great deal of natural language texts e.g., memos , rough drafts, conversation transcripts etc., have features that differ significantly from neat texts, posing special problems for readers, such as misspelled words, missing words, poor syntactic construction, missing periods, etc. |
other,14-2-P82-1035,bq |
</term>
e.g. ,
<term>
memos
</term>
, rough
<term>
|
drafts
|
</term>
,
<term>
conversation transcripts
</term>
|
#12988
However, a great deal of natural language texts e.g., memos, rough drafts , conversation transcripts etc., have features that differ significantly from neat texts, posing special problems for readers, such as misspelled words, missing words, poor syntactic construction, missing periods, etc. |
other,10-3-P82-1035,bq |
these problems is to make use of
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expectations
|
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, based both on knowledge of
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#13036
Our solution to these problems is to make use of expectations , based both on knowledge of surface English and on world knowledge of the situation being described. |
other,19-4-P82-1035,bq |
context
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, constrain the possible
<term>
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word-senses
|
</term>
of
<term>
words with multiple meanings
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#13074
These syntactic and semantic expectations can be used to figure out unknown words from context, constrain the possible word-senses of words with multiple meanings (ambiguity), fill in missing words (elllpsis), and resolve referents (anaphora). |
other,39-4-P82-1035,bq |
<term>
elllpsis
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) , and resolve
<term>
|
referents
|
</term>
(
<term>
anaphora
</term>
) . This method
|
#13094
These syntactic and semantic expectations can be used to figure out unknown words from context, constrain the possible word-senses of words with multiple meanings (ambiguity), fill in missing words (elllpsis), and resolve referents (anaphora). |
other,4-5-P82-1035,bq |
anaphora
</term>
) . This method of using
<term>
|
expectations
|
</term>
to aid the understanding of
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|
#13103
This method of using expectations to aid the understanding of scruffy texts has been incorporated into a working computer program called NOMAD, which understands scruffy texts in the domain of Navy messages. |