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    It is not the case that Crowdsourced general knowledge still requires natural language processing to produce formal statements

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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