{"id":1093,"date":"2018-03-03T13:27:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T18:27:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/?p=1093"},"modified":"2018-07-13T18:28:56","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T23:28:56","slug":"i-dont-own-a-tv-set-i-would-watch-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/2018\/03\/03\/i-dont-own-a-tv-set-i-would-watch-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I don&#8217;t own a TV set. I would watch it.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isi.edu\/~hobbs\/causality-jos.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Hobbs, Jerry R. &#8220;Toward a useful concept of causality for lexical semantics.&#8221; <em>Journal of Semantics<\/em> 22.2 (2005): 181-209.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-lexical-causality-paper.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1094\" title=\"Hobbs lexical causality paper\" src=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-lexical-causality-paper.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"566\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-lexical-causality-paper.png 566w, http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-lexical-causality-paper-300x182.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 566px) 100vw, 566px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The paper goes on for a few pages about how to represent the semantics of this utterance with logical rigor.<\/p>\n<p>This is a challenging problem for natural language processing systems and downstream reasoning applications, such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/tag\/linguist\/\" target=\"_blank\">Linguist <\/a>addresses.<\/p>\n<p>So, just for fun, I put this into the Linguist, which is typically directed towards parsing one sentence at a time, but no matter&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Here is the result.\u00a0 Note that the implicit conjunction of the two sentences is essentially disjunctive:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-would-modality.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1095\" title=\"Hobbs would modality\" src=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-would-modality.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"661\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-would-modality.png 661w, http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hobbs-would-modality-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following excerpt is from Hobbs, Jerry R. &#8220;Toward a useful concept of causality for lexical semantics.&#8221; Journal of Semantics 22.2 (2005): 181-209.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[789,787,786,788,581,527],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formal-logic","category-natural-language","tag-abduction","tag-causality","tag-hobbs","tag-interpretation","tag-lexical-semantics","tag-linguist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1099,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions\/1099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/haleyai.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}