南师大硕士课-5.ppt

Formalizing and Simulating Conceptual Representations Prof. Hui Zhang coglinger2011@126.com We look at some proposals about the types of cognitive operation that underlie semantic ability. We examine some attempts to formalize and model the conceptual representations involved in language. Jackendoff’s conceptual semantics: a theory about the cognitive structures behind language and the modes of their interaction. WordNet: the problems of word-sense disambiguation. Pustejovsky’s solution to word-sense disambiguation in his model of qualia structure. Conceptual semantics