@inproceedings{trott-etal-2020-construing,
    title = "({R}e)construing Meaning in {NLP}",
    author = "Trott, Sean  and
      Torrent, Tiago Timponi  and
      Chang, Nancy  and
      Schneider, Nathan",
    editor = "Jurafsky, Dan  and
      Chai, Joyce  and
      Schluter, Natalie  and
      Tetreault, Joel",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
    month = jul,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2020.acl-main.462/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.acl-main.462",
    pages = "5170--5184",
    abstract = "Human speakers have an extensive toolkit of ways to express themselves. In this paper, we engage with an idea largely absent from discussions of meaning in natural language understanding{---}namely, that the way something is expressed reflects different ways of conceptualizing or construing the information being conveyed. We first define this phenomenon more precisely, drawing on considerable prior work in theoretical cognitive semantics and psycholinguistics. We then survey some dimensions of construed meaning and show how insights from construal could inform theoretical and practical work in NLP."
}