Jumping to conclusions: Psychological reality and unreality in a word disambiguation program. Hirst, G. In Proceedings, Sixth Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, pages 179–182, Boulder, June, 1984.
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Human language understanding sometimes jumps to conclusions without having all the information it needs or even using all that it has. So, therefore, should any psychologically real language-understanding program. How this can be done in a discrete computational model is not obvious. In this paper, I look at three aspects of the problem:

  • When is information ignored?
  • When is a decision made out of impatience?
  • When is no decision made at all?
I give illustrations of these problems in the domain of word sense disambiguation with the Polaroid Words system.

@InProceedings{	  hirst36,
  author	= {Graeme Hirst},
  title		= {Jumping to conclusions: Psychological reality and
		  unreality in a word disambiguation program},
  booktitle	= {Proceedings, Sixth Meeting of the Cognitive Science
		  Society},
  address	= {Boulder},
  month		= {June},
  year		= {1984},
  pages		= {179--182},
  abstract	= {<p>Human language understanding sometimes jumps to
		  conclusions without having all the information it needs or
		  even using all that it has. So, therefore, should any
		  psychologically real language-understanding program. How
		  this can be done in a discrete computational model is not
		  obvious. In this paper, I look at three aspects of the
		  problem: </p><ul> <li>When is information ignored?
		  </li><li>When is a decision made out of impatience?
		  </li><li>When is no decision made at all? </li></ul> I give
		  illustrations of these problems in the domain of word sense
		  disambiguation with the Polaroid Words system.<p>}
}

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