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Re:To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization by solarmist on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:09PM (#29601210)
I agree, but I think the trickier part is that the semantics of words are even blurrier/more ambiguous than the syntax.
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Re:To Understand Language Is to Understand Generalization by canjobear on Friday December 17, 2021 @10:18PM (#29601259)
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.

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