The following excerpt is from Hobbs, Jerry R. “Toward a useful concept of causality for lexical semantics.” Journal of Semantics 22.2 (2005): 181-209.
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We’re collaborating on some educational work and came across this sentence in a textbook on finance and accounting:
We use statistical NLP but assist with the ambiguities. In doing this, we relate questions and answers and explanations to the text.
We also extract the terminology and produce a rich lexicalized ontology of the subject matter for pedagogical uses, assessment, and adaptive learning.
Here’s one that just struck me as interesting. This is a case where the choice looks like it won’t matter much either way, but …