Interpretersthose

Interpretersthose is a neologism used in some linguistic and computational discussions to refer to a hypothetical class of interpreters—human or machine—that specialize in resolving deictic expressions such as those, these, here, there within discourse. Because it is not an established term, its exact scope varies by author and context.

In linguistic theory, interpretersthose would focus on deixis and anaphora, modeling how speakers determine which entities are referred to by demonstratives depending on context, speaker intent, and discourse history. They would aim to align referents across languages with differing demonstrative systems and to handle cross-sentential references that require world knowledge or situational context.

In natural language processing, an implementation of interpretersthose might be a module or subsystem that performs real-time deictic resolution for translation, transcription, and dialogue systems. It would integrate discourse models, user profiles, and situational context to decide whether "those" refers to a set of objects, people, or events discussed earlier, and to maintain coherence across turns in conversation.

Applications include improving accuracy in simultaneous interpretation, cross-cultural communication, and accessibility services for multilingual audiences. Critics note that the term remains informal and that practical systems typically address deixis as part of larger coreference and translation pipelines rather than as a standalone class. See also deixis, anaphora, machine translation, coreference resolution.