Is There an Analog of the Distributional Hypothesis?

Wittgenstein said that the semantics of language are in large part indistinguishable from their pragmatics by how we use them. To truly understand language you need to incorporate some aspect of pragmatics, a pragmatic understanding. And so this motivated me to do two things across the last 10 years. First is to move away from the Dr. Ork I focused on to work on a class of methods that were more scalable but also gave greater freedom to incorporate information from non-linguistic channels or from other parts of the environment than just the words. In turn, having to study agents within such contexts would lead us to have a better understanding of the sort of semantics that emerged within the

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