Ellipsis and Higher-Order Unification
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Ellipsis: How we make sense of missing words

Sometimes people leave parts of a sentence out and we still know what they mean. This short piece explains a fresh way to read those gaps so your brain finds the right idea. The trick does not rely on pretending the full sentence had many hidden meanings, it simply shows how context fills the blanks. It predict many of the same patterns other ideas do, but with fewer moves and less guesswork.

What matters is that a missing bit can link to other parts of the sentence, and this approach shows how those links form. The result explains how ellipses mix with things like who does what, and how words point back to earlier bits. It even admit a straight forward computational method to generate possible readings, so machines can try the s…

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