Showing papers on "Connotation published in 1980"

Fuzzy word meaning analysis and representation in linguistic semantics, an empirical approach to the reconstruction of lexical meanings in East- and West-German newspaper texts

Abstract: Word semantics is gaining increasing interest within linguistics in view of both, more adequate representational structures of the semantic system and methods and procedures to analyse it empirically. Due to the fact formal and operational means have been devised to describe and represent word connotation and/or denotation, this paper discusses some of the empirical problems connected with natural languages' varying and vague meanings, how these can be analysed statistically from discourse data, and represented formally as fuzzy system of vocabulary mappings. Some examples computed from Eastand West-German newspaper texts will be given at the end to illustrate the approaches feasibility.

Connotation as a form of inference

Abstract: Story-processing systems have to deal, or avoid dealing, with INFERENCE CONTROL..6, 11, 13; when designing one such system2, we were greatly helped by the "(ERC)RC" expression for connotation1. Our system is specialised in multifaceted descriptions of characters (not, however, in the most difficult problems of beliefs about beliefs4 and 8): here we present another aspect of the story character processing, namely the recursive EXPLANATION of inconsistencies appearing in the description of a character.We give a very schematic system overview, then some details about the CONNOTATION rules and an example of their application to a story.