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Three discussion points are addressed from two perspectives: that of an anthropological tradition in cognitive science, and that of application-oriented natural language processing. From the cognitive perspective, knowledge of the world is not as influenced by linguistic semantics as we are tempted to think. From the applied NLP perspective, the distinction between world and lexical knowledge can be determined practically on the basis of what is needed for the computational task.
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White, J.S. (1992). Lexical and world knowledge: Theoretical and applied viewpoints. In: Pustejovsky, J., Bergler, S. (eds) Lexical Semantics and Knowledge Representation. SIGLEX 1991. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 627. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-55801-2_34
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