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    Challenges→Lexical knowledge and stereotyped behavioral patterns can drive natural language interpretation nearly to the exclusion of syntax

    Structural ambiguities like 'The horse raced past the barn fell' are unresolvable by lexical or script knowledge alone, requiring hierarchical syntactic parsing to assign correct argument structure.

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    Key Terms

    Hierarchical(epistemology)
    Organized in a ranking order where some things are more basic or fundamental, and others depend on them from above (like a pyramid).
    Lexical knowledge(as used in linguistics)
    Understanding what individual words mean in a dictionary sense.
    Script knowledge(as used in linguistics and cognitive science)
    Your background knowledge about how the world typically works—like knowing what usually happens at a restaurant or a farm.
    Syntactic parsing(as used in linguistics)
    Breaking down a sentence into its grammatical structure to figure out which words are connected to which other words.
    argument structure(Dung's formal framework for defeasible reasoning)

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    An ordered pair ⟨A, B⟩ where A is a set of arguments and B is a binary relation on A representing the attack relation between arguments
    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.
    structural ambiguity(Contrasted with lexical ambiguity of names or definite descriptions)
    Ambiguity arising from the syntactic structure of a sentence (e.g., differences in scope) rather than from multiple meanings of a word

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