What is it about?
Truth is in the eye of the beholder. The perception of truth is subjective. How is subjectivity reflected in human language? For example, how to interpret the noun 'wisdom' used in 'Alex has wisdom' is dependent on the speaker (i.e., the judge). This paper studies judge-dependent meaning, and it provides a formal characterization of nouns.
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Language is efficient: we use it everyday to convey thoughts. Language is inefficient: it's ambiguous, under-informative, and subjective. Such kind of 'inefficiency' makes it hard for industry to build end-to-end models processing language. This article betters our understanding of implicit meanings in general, so that better models can be developed to advance the field of artificial intelligence.
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This page is a summary of: Judge-dependence in quality nouns, Asian Languages and Linguistics, December 2021, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/alal.21007.con.
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