A 'signal' in the speaker's presuppositions and a 'future' meaning in a 'present' meaning - Two detection tasks in language understanding
Abstract
(Last changes Febr-22 1996)


The purpose is to delineate some possible features of a meaning understanding and construction system based on natural language, especially news reports, but not necessarily. Consequently the system is supposed to draw from linguistic knowledge and additionally utilizes an ontology. Some ideas are presented how both knowledge representations resp. knowledge representation languages look like but the main emphasis is on their operation with the end of 1) proving a certain 'anomaly' in the tacit reference knowledge of an utterance and 2) proving a future (supposedly complex) fact from non-obviously related present statements about the world.


Partly the theoretical decisions implied are to be called empirical as they are to resemble cognitive processes, especially those of understanding utterances in the psycholinguistic view, partly they receive their properties
on formal grounds (technical feasability and performance). In the following description the above mentioned features are envisaged as concrete machine implementations.


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