Meaning of a word
In this section we will discuss about the meaning of the word “Meaning” and what is the meaning of a sentence. When we read a sentence there are some words that are not important than the others, the words we drop when we summarize. The nouns in a sentence makes the most of the meaning of it.
Let’s take this example:
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
Edsger Dijkstra
In that sentence there are some words that make it meaningful for the subject it is relevant (AI). Question, Computer, Think, Submarine, and Swim But if we take these words alone, it also does not give us the meaning.
When we summarize a sentence we do a similar thing. What we do is Re-Building a sentence from it’s own words or synonyms to give the same meaning, but in an efficient way. To do that we have to understand the meaning of the sentence and understand the functionality of each word and their subject relevancy.
The word “Question” in the above sentence has a special functionality, putting the phrase “A computer can think” in a comparison with the second phrase about the “Submarine”. Therefore the words “Submarine” & “Swim” do not make the sentence relevant to Watercrafts or Sea.
These are the boundary problems we have to face in this project (within our approach). But we have to make a solution within these boundaries, and that is usable.
In the above sentence there are some words like… the, of, is, a (Articles) and some words like… whether, can, no, more, interesting, than (Adjectives & Stuff). These words are not relevant to any subjects, but help us to understand the meaning. Let’s write the sentence again without the articles
Question whether computer can think no more interesting than question whether submarine swim.
Ok, that does not make much harm to the sentence’s meaning. That means a sentence can still give it’s meaning without the articles. But we still need the Adjectives & Stuff to understand it (even they does not have a subject relevancy).
Now you will understand that the Meaning is a broader subject than the Subject relevancy. So we are going to build a solution to understand the subject relevancy not the meaning.
References
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