• Media type: Report; E-Book
  • Title: Connectionist models and figurative speech
  • Contributor: Holbach-Weber, Susan [Author]
  • Published: Scientific publications of the Saarland University (UdS), 1989
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.22028/D291-25016
  • ISSN: 0946-0071
  • Keywords: Künstliche Intelligenz
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  • Description: This paper contains an introduction to connectionist models. Then we focus on the question of how novel figurative usages of descriptive adjectives may be interpreted in a structured connectionist model of conceptual combination. The suggestion is that inferences drawn from an adjective's use in familiar contexts form the basis for all possible interpretations of the adjective in a novel context. The more plausible of the possibilities, it is speculated, are reinforced by some form of one-shot learning, rendering the interpretative process obsolete after only one (memorable) encounter with a novel figure of speech.
  • Access State: Open Access