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    Crowdsourced general knowledge still requires natural lan... — Carmelics
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    Crowdsourced general knowledge still requires natural language processing to produce formal statements

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    • 1.General knowledge offered by non-expert users is less carefully formulated than encyclopedia entries or lexicon word sense glosses
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    • 2.Formal statements cannot be directly abstracted from informally expressed natural language without additional processing
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's later work shows that meaning in language is constituted by use within shared practices, not by formal translation from informal to formal registers.
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    • 2.If semantic content is already determinate in communal linguistic use, NLP 'processing' retrieves rather than produces formal meaning, making it unnecessary for grounding.
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    • 1.Crowdsourced systems like Wikipedia's infoboxes and Freebase demonstrate that structured, machine-readable formal statements can emerge directly from human curation without NLP intermediaries.
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    • 2.The historical development of the Semantic Web relied on human-authored ontological markup, not NLP extraction, as its primary mechanism for formalizing crowdsourced knowledge.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    The crowdsourcing approach to the acquisition of general knowledge consists of soliciting verbally expressed information, or annotations of such information, from large numbers of web users, sometimes using either small financial rewards or the challenge of participating in simple games as inducements (Havasi et al. 2007; von Ahn 2006). Crowdsourcing has proved quite reliable for simple annotation/classification tasks (e.g., Snow et al. 2008; Hoffmann et al. 2009). However, general knowledge of
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