Understanding Task

An Understanding Task is semantic processing task that requires a semantic interpretation of an item.

• AKA: Intellection, Comprehension.
• Context:
  • output: a Semantic Representation.
  • It can be solved by an Understanding System (that implements an understanding algorithm).
  • It can range from being a Manual Understanding Task to being an Automated Understanding Task.
• Example(s):
  • a Linguistic Undertanding Task, such as: Natural Language Understanding Task.
  • an Visual Understanding Task.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Shallow Semantic Task.
  • a Syntactic Parsing Task.
  • a Semantic Annotation Task.
  • an Information Extraction Task.
• See: Psychological, Person, Message, Concept.

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References

2014

• (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/understanding Retrieved:2014-1-21.
  • Understanding (also called intellection) is a psychological process related to an abstract or physical object, such as a person, situation, or message whereby one is able to think about it and use concepts to deal adequately with that object.

    Understanding is a relation between the knower and an object of understanding. Understanding implies abilities and dispositions with respect to an object of knowledge sufficient to support intelligent behavior.

    An understanding is the limit of a conceptualization. To understand something is to have conceptualized it to a given measure.

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