Challenging the principle of compositionality in interpreting natural language texts

TL;DR

This paper critiques the principle of compositionality in natural language interpretation, highlighting its limitations and proposing a more radical alternative approach for understanding language.

Contribution

It challenges the traditional compositionality hypothesis and introduces a novel, more radical approach to interpreting natural language texts.

Findings

Compositionality faces significant interpretative problems.

A radical alternative approach is proposed.

Traditional methods may be insufficient for complex language understanding.

Abstract

The paper aims at emphasizing that, even relaxed, the hypothesis of compositionality has to face many problems when used for interpreting natural language texts. Rather than fixing these problems within the compositional framework, we believe that a more radical change is necessary, and propose another approach.