Lexical choice as pattern matching
Knowledge-Based SystemsPublished 1 September 1992
Jean-François Nogier, Michael Zock
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The authors believe that word meanings and utterance meanings are isomorphic, in the sense that words, sentences and texts are simply different units for conveying a message, and the core meanings of words and texts can be expressed by the same formalism: conceptual graphs.
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