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Debrock, G.

Sarbo, J.

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Towards a Peircean model of language

We argue that traditional approaches to natural language suffer from the `fallacy of misplaced concreteness&apos;. Because `language&apos; is a noun, and nouns usually refer to `things&apos;, it is often assumed that language is some `thing&apos; with a certain immutable structure and properties. This problem of language modelling is also witnessed by the limited success of phrase structure-based parsers in natural language processing. One reason for this lies in the rigidity of hierarchical structure on the one hand, as opposed to the high flexibility of language use on the other. It will be argued that language is in the first place a process, and that this assumption puts the task of an analysis of language in a different perspective. A model supporting this view is Natural Language Concept Analysis (NLCA). In NLCA, hierarchical structure is found as the result of the interaction of different, inherent combinatorial properties of linguistic units. The purpose of the paper is to show that NLCA is consis..

Guy Debrock

Janos Sarbo

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Towards a Peircean model of language

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