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    It is not the case that Generic and habitual sentences are of great concern in computational linguistics.

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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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    • 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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