Natural Language Word Mention
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See: Word Instance, Natural Language Processing, Event Mention Detection Task, Word Sense Disambiguation, Skip-gram Model.
References
2019
- (Wikipedia, 2019) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use–mention_distinction Retrieved:2019-2-15.
- The use–mention distinction is a foundational concept of analytic philosophy, [1] according to which it is necessary to make a distinction between a word (or phrase) and it,[2] [3] and many philosophical works have been "vitiated by a failure to distinguish use and mention". The distinction is disputed by non-analytic philosophers.[4]
The distinction between use and mention can be illustrated for the word cheese:
- Use: Cheese is derived from milk.
- Mention: 'Cheese' is derived from the Old English word ċēse.
- The first sentence is a statement about the substance called "cheese"; it uses the word 'cheese' to refer to that substance. The second is a statement about the word 'cheese' as a signifier; it mentions the word without using it to refer to anything other than itself.
- The use–mention distinction is a foundational concept of analytic philosophy, [1] according to which it is necessary to make a distinction between a word (or phrase) and it,[2] [3] and many philosophical works have been "vitiated by a failure to distinguish use and mention". The distinction is disputed by non-analytic philosophers.[4]