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John (Sowa)

 

Have you had some experience with people using CLCE to provide machine parsable knowledge?

 

How are the inter-coder reliability issues?

 

Otherwise, I agree with John's other comments.

 

But, first order logic presents expressibility issues when it comes to strategic language: belief, desire, intention, counter-factuals. These kinds of expression are, of course, important for cooperation and competition and their expression in social discourse.

 

Additionally, first order logic poses a problem type inconsistent tropes (e.g., metaphor) that are an important sources of creativity and openness in language.

 

So, we need a story for evolving from CLCE towards handling opaque contexts and surface semantics, inter alia, if we are to make progress on unrestricted language.

 

An interplay between type-consistent, first order logic -style representations and type-inconsistent, higher-order surface semantic representations is required; neither alone will suffice.

 

 John M.