Abstract
This paper addresses the question why language is vague. A novel answer to this question is proposed, which complements other answers suggested in the literature. It claims that vagueness can facilitate search, particularly in quasi-continuous domains (such as physical size, colour, or temperature), given that different speakers are likely to attach subtly different meanings to words (such as "tall", "blue", or "hot") defined over such domains. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Van Deemter, K. (2010). Vagueness facilitates search. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 6042 LNAI, pp. 173–182). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14287-1_18
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