Ambiguity Advantage under Meaning Activation
Ambiguity Advantage under Meaning Activation
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意义激活下的歧义优势
DOI：
10.1007/s10849-021-09349-4
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2022
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通讯作者：
Liping Tang
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ハイス・ファン＝デル＝ルべ (Gijs van der Lubbe);Junghun Lee;林麗てい;李眞惠;児玉聡;Gijs van der Lubbe;Tomoki Kawahira;Liping Tang
对自然语言中存在歧义词的传统解释侧重于伴随着明确的语言而增加的复杂性的代价。在这些理论中，歧义之所以出现，是因为它代表了精确度带来的信息好处和丰富语言的成本之间的最佳权衡。在这篇文章中，我们认为歧义仍然是学习语言的一个不可避免的特征，即使没有复杂性的代价。我们发现，歧义词出现的频率更高，因此更容易被学习，从而在歧义词的意义之间触发更多的语义激活。我们通过一个博弈论的例子来说明这一点。
Traditional explanations for the presence of ambiguous words in natural language have focused on the cost of added complexity that would accompany unambiguous languages. In these theories, ambiguity arises because it represents the optimal trade-off between the informational benefits from precision and the costs for rich languages. In this paper, we suggest that ambiguity remains an inevitable feature of learning languages even without complexity costs. We show that ambiguous words occur more frequently and will therefore be learned more readily, thus triggering more semantic activations between senses of the ambiguous word. We illustrate this through a game-theoretical example.