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Proper Names in Interaction

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Proper names in natural languages seem very simple from a linguistic point of view although getting their semantics correct turns out to be something of a challenge. In this paper we will suggest that there is an important advantage in viewing proper names as something like Saussurean signs incorporated in a formal theory which takes account of linguistic utterances as actions enabling linguistic agents to interact.

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    Throughout this paper we will represent phonological types informally as the standard orthography enclosed in inverted commas.

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    A complete theory of salience would, of course, need to take more than recency into account.

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    Robin Cooper

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  1. Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tokyo, Japan

    Setsuya Kurahashi

  2. Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Kanagawa, Japan

    Yuiko Ohta

  3. Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

    Sachiyo Arai

  4. National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Ken Satoh

  5. Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan

    Daisuke Bekki

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Cooper, R. (2017). Proper Names in Interaction. In: Kurahashi, S., Ohta, Y., Arai, S., Satoh, K., Bekki, D. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10247. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61572-1_1

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