The Philosophical Investigations

By M. Engelmann. 2013

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Learning Through Dialogue Interactions (2016, background): “Learning language through interaction and feedback can be traced back to the 1950s, when Wittgenstein argued that the meaning of words is best understood from their use within given language games (Wittgenstein, 2010).”
Climbing towards NLU: On Meaning, Form, and Understanding in the Age of Data (2020, background): “From this literature we can see that the slogan “meaning is use” (often attributed to Wittgenstein, 1953), refers not to “use” as “distribution in a text corpus” but rather that language is used in the real world to convey communicative intents to real people.”
Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language (2016, background): “However, they do not capture the functional aspects of communication, i.e., that humans use words to coordinate with others and make things happen (Austin, 1962; Clark, 1996; Wittgenstein, 1953).”
Learning Language Games through Interaction (2016, background): “1 Introduction Wittgenstein (1953) famously said that language derives its meaning from use , and introduced the concept of language games to illustrate the ﬂuid-ity and purpose-orientedness of language.”
Multimodal Distributional Semantics (2013, background): “The claim has multiple theoretical roots in psychology, structuralist linguistics , lexicography and possibly even in the later writings of Wittgenstein (Firth, 1957; Harris, 1954; Miller & Charles, 1991; Wittgenstein, 1953).”
Experimental Support for a Categorical Compositional Distributional Model of Meaning (2011, background): “Distributional models are more recent and can be related to Wittgenstein’s later philosophy of ‘meaning is use’, whereby meanings of words can be determined from their context (Wittgenstein, 1953).”
Multi-Step Regression Learning for Compositional Distributional Semantics (2013, background): “In contrast, distributional semantic models, suggested by Firth (1957), implement the linguistic philosophy of Wittgenstein (1953) stating that meaning is associated with use, and therefore meaning can be learned through the observation of linguistic practises.”
Intergroup Leadership in Organizations: Leading Across Group and Organizational Boundaries (2012, background): “…of one’s well-established relationship with one partner (cf. relational identity) may be projected onto a new relationship with a partner who is felt to resemble, in the sense of having a “family resemblance” to (e.g., Wittgenstein, 1953), the partner from the well-established relationship.”
The Paradox of Corporate Social Responsibility Standards (2013, unknown): “I obey a rule blindly’’ (Wittgenstein 1958, p. 219; emphasis added).”
Error and expectation in language learning: The curious absence of mouses in adult speech (2013, background): “Being able to do so appears to hinge on learning to share subjectivity; the child must somehow master the shared point of view of her community (see also Akhtar & Toma-sello 2000, Tomasello 2003, Wittgenstein 1953).”
Word Embeddings through Hellinger PCA (2013, background): “Linguists assumed long ago that words occurring in similar contexts tend to have similar meanings (Wittgenstein, 1953).”
The SAGE Handbook of Interview Research: The Complexity of the Craft (2012, background): “Attention focuses on both how interview narratives are produced and the functions those narratives serve—in a word, what respondents do with the narratives (see Wittgenstein, 1953).”
Adversarial Language Games for Advanced Natural Language Intelligence (2019, background): “Such context-related interactions are believed to play a central role in natural language mastery in the theory of both linguistics (Mey and Xu, 2001) and philosophy of language (Wittgenstein, 1953; Lewis, 1969).”
Word meaning in minds and machines (2020, background): “However, with the wide belief that definitions do not exist for many words (Rosch, 1978; Wittgenstein, 1953), that simple solution is no longer available, and one must wonder which features of dog are included in the word meaning and which are part of some more general knowledge of the world.”
TuringAdvice: A Generative and Dynamic Evaluation of Language Use (2021, methodology): “Our approach is also inspired by Wittgenstein’s notion of semantics, that “meaning is use:” language is grounded in our desire to make sense of one another and cooperate to meet our needs (Wittgenstein, 1953).”