Accessing implicit meaning: Towards computational ability to reconstruct textual omissions
Julia M. Taylor, Victor Raskin, Louis Hickman · 2016
This paper describes an early step in approaching implicit meaning computationally. It outlines various types of implicit meanings and then presents a method of finding the so called defaults - omissions that are universally reconstructable and, of course, interpretible without much additional reasoning. The defaults are analyzed on the example of the 1000 instances of TerminateLife events, and a small illustrative experiment is described, where defaults of the event and its children are computationally recovered.