Some Issues in Intelligent Processing of Linguistic Information 81 Some Issues in Intelligent Processing of Linguistic Information

In order to achieve a higher and more intelligent level of processing linguistic information than is cur-rently accomplished by conventional technologies, it is believed necessary to obtain deeper understanding of some of the fundamental aspects of language, as well as of the way humans deal with these aspects. The present paper first takes up ambiguity, vague-ness, and variability, and presents some definitions and formulations, mainly on the basis of the author’s own studies. It then discusses human processes of lan-guage comprehension and language acquisition, and proposes to model these processes to be incorporated into machine processing. Finally, new frontiers of re-search are briefly mentioned. 1