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    Generic and habitual sentences are of great concern in computational linguistics.

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    • 1.Much of people's general knowledge about the world is most naturally expressed in the form of generic and habitual sentences.
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    • 2.Systematic interpretation of generic and habitual sentences would provide a way of funneling large amounts of knowledge into formal knowledge bases from sources such as lexicons, encyclopedias, and crowd-sourced collections.
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    • 1.Generic sentences resist truth-conditional formalization because their truth values are indeterminate relative to counterexamples (Carlson & Pelletier 1995).
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    • 2.Computational systems require determinate input-output mappings, making generics structurally ill-suited as knowledge base primitives.
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    • 1.The meaning of generics is context-dependent and normatively loaded in ways that encode social bias rather than world knowledge (Leslie 2008).
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    • 2.Systematically funneling generic sentences into formal knowledge bases would therefore propagate and entrench culturally contingent stereotypes as objective facts.
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    The interpretive challenges presented by such sentences are (or should be) of great concern in computational linguistics, since much of people's general knowledge about the world is most naturally expressed in the form of generic and habitual sentences. Systematic ways of interpreting and disambiguating such sentences would immediately provide a way of funneling large amounts of knowledge into formal knowledge bases from sources such as lexicons, encyclopedias, and crowd-sourced collections of g
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