Authors:
Philippe Herr
and
Nada Matta
Affiliation:
LIST3N, University of Technology of Troyes, 12 Rue Marie Curie, 42060 10004 Troyes Cedex, France
Keyword(s):
Textual Semantics, Text, Context, Ambiguity, Conflict, Hermeneutics, Knowledge, NLP.
Abstract:
The notion of context, present since Antiquity, has gained increasing importance across various fields such as linguistic semantics, cognitive psychology, artificial intelligence (AI), and natural language processing (NLP) since the 1980s. In text analysis, a distinction is made between “internal context” (textual elements surrounding a linguistic item) and “external context” (circumstances surrounding the production of a fact or process). Context is thus crucial both for determining the meaning of linguistic signs and for interpreting texts Although NLP and generative AI systems simulate linguistic exchanges, they often lack explicit internal representations of contextualization processes This paper aims to shed light on what is meant by “context,” with a particular focus on “cultural context.” It specifically investigates the expression of conflictual elements that can be identified in texts through the activation of context.