Comment on To Understand Language Is to Understand GeneralizationparentComments−solarmist4yI agree, but I think the trickier part is that the semantics of words are even blurrier/more ambiguous than the syntax.−canjobear4yYeah, hence the turn away from dictionary definitions and things like WordNet towards continuous distributional vector representations in NLP.I don’t think you could really give an uncontroversial symbolic definition for any natural word.
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I agree, but I think the trickier part is that the semantics of words are even blurrier/more ambiguous than the syntax.
Yeah, hence the turn away from dictionary definitions and things like WordNet towards continuous distributional vector representations in NLP.
I don’t think you could really give an uncontroversial symbolic definition for any natural word.