What is interesting is seeing how Wolfram Alpha replies to the question
"What does 'Ive had it up to here mean'. I used double quotes for to
delineate "I'vehere" so the parser did not get confused with the I've
contraction. (01)
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=What+does+%22I%27ve+had+it+up+to+here%
22+mean (02)
It got the verb correct as the second entry reads: (03)
"have or possess, either in a concrete or abstract use" (04)
Nevertheless, it stumped WA. (05)
Duane Nickull (06)
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On 11-12-06 8:02 PM, "John F. Sowa" <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (09)
>On 12/6/2011 10:26 PM, Duane Nickull wrote:
>> How should CycL (or other pseudo KIF language) programmers deal with
>> sayings such as "I've had it up to here!".
>
>That is an example of the huge number of research problems with NLP.
>A common way of classifying the problems is to subdivide linguistics
>into multiple subfields.
>
>One common subdivision is syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.
>Syntax deals with the form without any consideration of meaning.
>Semantics deals with the literal meaning, also called the propositional
>content. And pragmatics deals with what you intended to do with your
>statement in the context. But that is just scratching the surface.
>
>The example above would literally say that you have something (it)
>up to the level you indicate with a gesture. That could be another
>way of saying "I'm fed up with [something]", which is a frozen
>metaphor for saying that you are annoyed about something up to
>a level that has reached your limit of tolerance.
>
>A huge literature has been written about such things. I say a bit
>about them in the following slides (goal.pdf) and the paper
>(rolelog.pdf):
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/goal.pdf
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/pubs/rolelog.pdf
>
>Some programs do something useful about such things, but no programs
>correctly interpret all such things consistently well.
>
>John
>
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