The generation of continuous semantic constraints from semantic propositions
Gregg C. Oden · 1977
Language comprehension is an exceedingly complex process which requires the extensive use of many different kinds of information in order to be successfully accomplished. One potentially very important type of information which has to date been largely ignored is the degree to which possible interpretations are sensible. While the sensibleness of candidate interpretations has long been recognized to be important, sensibleness has usually been treated as if it were an all-or-none property. However, it is clear that many things are more-or-less sensible and, therefore, the relative sensibleness of alternative interpretations may well be extremely useful information. For example, Oden (1977) has argued