Implicit Referencer

An implicit referencer is a referencer whose referencer information can be used to Infer its (implicit) referent with some probability.

• AKA: Implicit Reference, Implied Reference, Intensional Referencer.
• Context:
  • It can be:
    • an Implicit Entity Referencer;
    • an Implicit Relation Referencer.
  • It can be an Allusion.
  • It can require that the Agent have some specific Background Knowledge.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • The Passage “Away! away! for I will fly to thee, Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards” (from John Keats' poem "Ode to a Nightingale") contains an Allusion to Titian's "Bacchus and Ariadne" which was brought to England in 1806. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacchus_and_Ariadne
• Counter-Example(s):
  • an Explicit Referencer.
• See: Ambiguous Reference, Reference Resolution Task.

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References

• (Wordnet, 2009) ⇒ http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
  • implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something; "an implicit agreement not to raise the subject"; "there was implicit ...
  • being without doubt or reserve; "implicit trust"
• http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/implicit
  • Implied indirectly, without being directly expressed; Contained in the essential nature of something but not openly shown; Having no reservations …

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