Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches
Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable problems for linguists and lexicographers. The contributors in this volume consider the implications of these problems for linguistic theory and how they may be addressed in computational linguistics.
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Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches
Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable problems for linguists and lexicographers. The contributors in this volume consider the implications of these problems for linguistic theory and how they may be addressed in computational linguistics.
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Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Overview

Polysemy is a term used in semantic and lexical analysis to describe a word with multiple meanings. Although such words present few difficulties in everyday communication, they do pose near-intractable problems for linguists and lexicographers. The contributors in this volume consider the implications of these problems for linguistic theory and how they may be addressed in computational linguistics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199250868
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 01/10/2002
Series: Theoretical and Computational Approaches
Edition description: Revised ed.
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 8.84(w) x 6.64(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Yael Ravin is a research staff member at the T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM in New York, where she has been working in computational linguistics. Her current research focuses on integrating information extraction and text retrieval techniques into knowledge management applications.

Claudia Leacock recently became a research scientist in the Natural Language Processing group at the Educational Testing Service. Previously she spent six years as a research staff member at Princeton University's Cognitive Science Laboratory.

Table of Contents

1. Polysemy: An overview, Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock2. Aspects of the Micro-Structure of Word Meanings, D. Alan Cruse3. Autotroponomy, Christiane Fellbaum4. Lexical Shadowing and Argument Closure, James Pustejovsky5. Describing Polysemy: The case of Crawl, Charles J. Fillmore and B. T. S. Atkins6. The Garden Swarms with Bees and the Fallacy of 'Argument Alternation', David Dowty7. Polysemy: A problem of definition, Cliff Goddard8. Lexical Representations for Sentence Processing, George A. Miller and Claudia Leacock9. Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation, Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks10. Polysemy in a Broad-Coverage Natural Language Processing System, William Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende, and Stephen Richardson11. Disambiguation and Connectionism, Hinrich Schütze
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