Download or read book More on Understanding Understanding Utterances written by Paul Ziff and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question as to how hearers are able to understand correctly utterances containing polysemous words can be clarified by considering what would be involved in providing an automation with a comparable ability to resolve polysemy. It is clear that such an automation would have to be able to analyze utterances syntactically and to ascertain whether any of certain standard discourse operators had been applied in the generation of an utterance, e.g., operators corresponding to tropes, nonce usage, etc. But there are a number of other factors that impinge upon the resolution of polysemy. One of these pertains to coherence in discourse, another to matters of general belief. As an approach to dealing with these additional factors, a vectorial analysis of word senses and a new relation of logical implication are proposed. (Author).