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In order to understand a natural language expression it is usually not enough to know the literal (“dictionary”) meaning of the words used in this expression and compositional rules of the corresponding language. Much more knowledge is actually involved in discourse processing; knowledge, which may have nothing to do with the linguistic competence but is rather related to our general conception of the world. Suppose we are reading the following text fragment.
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Ovchinnikova, E. (2012). Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding. In: Integration of World Knowledge for Natural Language Understanding. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 3. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-53-4_4
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