Re: on the meaning of 'word sense'

To: ted@crl.nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Subject: Re: on the meaning of 'word sense'
From: John Nerbonne <nerbonne@let.rug.nl>
Date: Tue, 2 May 1995 07:35:16 +0200 (METDST)
Cc: corpora@lists.uib.no
In-Reply-To: <199505020007.SAA14441@NMSU.Edu> from "Ted Dunning" at May 1, 95 06:07:04 pm
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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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