Dictionary word sense distinctions: An enquiry into their nature

A Kilgarriff - Computers and the Humanities, 1992 - Springer
… The idealization points us towards the criteria the lexicographer was using for his or her
clustering … A usage-type must be of sufficient frequency for it to earn its place in a dictionary. …

A dictionary-based study of word sense difficulty

D Alfter, R Cardon, T François - … of the 2nd Workshop on Tools …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
word difficulty is rated both by native and non-native speakers. We also assess whether a
single word sense … In other words, r indicates the cumulative frequency up to level i divided by …

I don't believe in word senses

A Kilgarriff - Computers and the Humanities, 1997 - Springer
… we operationalise ‘word sense’ as ‘dictionary word sense’, … The identity test for a word sense
in a particular dictionary is … of use of the word, is dictated by considerations of frequency and …

[PDF][PDF] Word sense frequency estimation for Russian: verbs, adjectives, and different dictionaries

A Lopukhina, K Lopukhin - Proceedings of eLex 2017 Conference, 2017 - academia.edu
… the purpose of word sense frequency estimation, for each word we perform automated word
sense … from corpora, and then calculate relative sense frequencies in the sample. We need a …

[PDF][PDF] Recent trends in word sense disambiguation: A survey

M Bevilacqua, T Pasini… - … Joint Conference on …, 2021 - researchportal.helsinki.fi
… To cope with the excessive granularity of word senses and simplify the WSD task, … Sense
vocabulary compression through the semantic knowledge of WordNet for neural Word Sense

Word senses

A Kilgarriff - Word Sense Disambiguation, 2006 - Springer
frequency threshold will be applicable. For homonyms, which are entirely unpredictable, a
low baseline frequency (comparable to that required for rare words … them is in dictionaries, so …

Word sense disambiguation: A survey

R Navigli - ACM computing surveys (CSUR), 2009 - dl.acm.org
… denote different meanings: low-frequency tones and a type of fish, … sense distinctions with
words encoded in a dictionary D as a … towards a certain conceptual class (ie, sense choice). …

Unsupervised acquisition of predominant word senses

D McCarthy, R Koeling, J Weeds… - Computational …, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
… definitions of word senses (available in most dictionaries), or … and adjectives also tend
towards one sense. Verbs are on … low frequency words are used often in senses other than the …

Towards a principled approach to sense clustering–a case study of wordnet and dictionary senses in Danish

BS Pedersen, M Agirrezabal, S Nimb… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - aclanthology.org
… However, also the frequency of the senses (annotated in a set of randomly selected … In
other words, the semantic relatedness between word senses which we are looking for in …

[PDF][PDF] Applying a word-sense induction system to the automatic extraction of diverse dictionary examples

P Cook, M Rundell, JH Lau… - Proceedings of the XVI …, 2014 - eltimster.github.io
… In this paper, as a step towards this ambitious goal, we propose and evaluate a method for
… as a bag-of-words, ie, word order is ignored, but the frequency of words in the context is …