Semantic Ambiguity and Perceived Ambiguity
| dc.creator | Poesio, Massimo | |
| dc.date | 1995-05-16 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T09:09:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T09:09:52Z | |
| dc.description | I explore some of the issues that arise when trying to establish a connection between the underspecification hypothesis pursued in the NLP literature and work on ambiguity in semantics and in the psychological literature. A theory of underspecification is developed `from the first principles', i.e., starting from a definition of what it means for a sentence to be semantically ambiguous and from what we know about the way humans deal with ambiguity. An underspecified language is specified as the translation language of a grammar covering sentences that display three classes of semantic ambiguity: lexical ambiguity, scopal ambiguity, and referential ambiguity. The expressions of this language denote sets of senses. A formalization of defeasible reasoning with underspecified representations is presented, based on Default Logic. Some issues to be confronted by such a formalization are discussed. | |
| dc.description | Latex, 47 pages. Uses tree-dvips.sty, lingmacros.sty, fullname.sty | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9505034 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9505034 | |
| dc.identifier | K. van Deemter and S. Peters (eds.), Semantic ambiguity and Underspecification, CSLI, 1995 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151190 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | Semantic Ambiguity and Perceived Ambiguity | |
| dc.type | text |