Language Understanding Task

A Language Understanding Task is an understanding task that is a linguistic processing task.

• Context:
  • Input: a Linguistic Item.
  • performance measure: Language Comprehension Measure.
  • It can (typically) range from being a Language-specific General Text Understanding Task (English Understanding Task, Mandarin Understanding Task, ...) to being a Language-independent Text Understanding Task.
  • It can range from (typically) being Human-Performed Language Understanding Task to being an Automated Language Understanding Task (an AI complete task).
  • It can range from being a Shallow Language Understanding Task to being a Deep Language Understanding Task.
  • It can range from being a Syntactic Language Understanding Task to being a Semantic Language Understanding Task.
  • It can be solved by a Language Understanding System.
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• Example(s):
  • English Understanding, Chinese Understanding, German Understanding, ...
  • Language Comprehension.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Domain-specific Natural Language Understanding.
  • General Spoken Language Understanding.
  • General Text Generation.
• See: Reading Task, Word Sense Disambiguation, Natural Language Understanding, Hand-Written Document Reading.

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