Polysemy - Theoretical and Computational Approaches

Zusatztext It should therefore hold an important place on the shelves of any researcher in the fields of lexical semantics and word sense disambiguation, and will certainly be valued by many of our graduate students". Informationen zum Autor Yael Ravin is a manager 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 is Co-Director of Research at ETS Technologies, a subsidiary of Educational Testing Service, where she does research on automated scoring technologies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung These essays examine current theoretical and computational work on polysemy. Three theoretical approaches are presented: the classical, the prototypical, and the relational. The authors describe the nature of polysemy, the criteria for detecting it, and its manifestations across languages. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock: Polysemy: An overview 2: D. Alan Cruse: Aspects of the Micro-Structure of Word Meanings 3: Christiane Fellbaum: Autotroponomy 4: James Pustejovsky: Lexical Shadowing and Argument Closure 5: Charles J. Fillmore and B. T. S. Atkins: Describing Polysemy: The case of 'Crawl' 6: David Dowty: 'The Garden Swarms with Bees' and the Fallacy of 'Argument Alternation' 7: Cliff Goddard: Polysemy: A problem of definition 8: George A. Miller and Claudia Leacock: Lexical Representations for Sentence Processing 9: Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks: Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation 10: William Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende, and Stephen Richardson: Polysemy in a Broad-Coverage Natural Language Processing System 11: Hinrich Schütze: Disambiguation and Connectionism ...

Product details

• Authors: Yael (Research Staff Member At the T. J. Wa Ravin, Yael Leacock Ravin
• Assisted by: Claudia Leacock (Editor), Leacock Claudia (Editor), Yael Ravin (Editor), Ravin Yael (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2001
• EAN: 9780199250868
• ISBN: 978-0-19-925086-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Theoretical and Computational
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Lexicography, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Lexicography, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Computational Linguistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computational and corpus linguistics