Saturday, February 14, 2015

Idiomatic Conceptualization

The belief that humans speak in idioms rather than structured linguistic elements, therefore the easiest way to parse natural language is to recognize idioms and map them to concepts.

The classic example is that when someone says "time flies", they are more likely referring to a shortage of time or perception that the universal heartbeat has increased its frequency, rather than to the concept of a clock flying through the air.

Idiomatic Conceptualization is simply a mapping of well understood word patterns to concepts. It does not attempt to define a concept.

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