@inproceedings{Hirst_2009_whodecides,
  author = "Graeme Hirst",
  title = "Who decides what a text means?",
  year = "2009",
  booktitle = "Invited talk given at the Gesellschaft f\"ur
                  Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik, Tagung
                  2009",
  month = "October",
  address = "Potsdam",
   abstract = "Writer-based and reader-based views of text-meaning are
                  reflected by the respective questions ``What is the
                  author trying to tell me'' and ``What does this text
                  mean to me personally?'' Contemporary computational
                  linguistics, however, generally takes neither
                  view. But this is not adequate for the development
                  of sophisticated applications such as intelligence
                  gathering and question answering.  I discuss
                  different views of text-meaning from the perspective
                  of the needs of computational text analysis and the
                  collaborative repair of misunderstanding.",
  download = "http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Hirst-TSD-2008.pdf"
}