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references a-b
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information retrieval
Topic:
natural language as action or problem solving
Topic:
meaning by use
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meaning by social context
Topic:
problems with information retrieval
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limitations of formalism
Topic:
localized understanding

Reference

Blair, D.C. , "Information retrieval and the philosophy of language ", Computer Journal , 35 , 3 , pp. 200-207 , June 1992 . Google

Quotations
200 ;;Quote: information retrieval systems are linguistic; describe content or context of document in a free or controlled vocabulary
201 ;;Quote: illocutionary speech acts consist of assertives, directives, commissives, declarations and expressives
203 ;;Quote: meaning in language is based on human, institutional facts, not brute facts of nature; only in the stream of life do words have meaning
203+;;Quote: information retrieval is based on the brute facts of documents; can not capture the meaning of a document
204 ;;Quote: to tell if a speaker mis-spoke, need to infer some of the speaker's meaning prior to the utterance; implies, decoding theories are incomplete
205 ;;Quote: language has a dynamic structure like a game, a set of tools defined by use


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Topic: meaning by social context (33 items)
Topic: problems with information retrieval (51 items)
Topic: limitations of formalism (92 items)
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