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<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?> <Paper uid="W91-0206"> <Title>Conventional Metaphor and the Lexicon</Title> <Section position="4" start_page="56" end_page="56" type="intro"> <SectionTitle> * Performance (the number of senses that can be accounted for) is dependent on the </SectionTitle> <Paragraph position="0"> amount of general world knowledge.</Paragraph> <Paragraph position="1"> Unfortunately, as attractive as this formulation may be, a number of serious problems call it into question. These problems indicate that neither a narrowly construed version of lexical semantics, nor large amounts of world knowledge, nor a combination of the two, can account for the linguistic competence required to deal with non-literal language. The following two sections will outline two problems with the traditional formulation and its computational counterparts.</Paragraph> </Section> class="xml-element"></Paper>