Polysemy—Evidence from Linguistics, Behavioral Science, and Contextualized Language Models

J Haber, M Poesio - Computational Linguistics, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Polysemy is the type of lexical ambiguity where a word has multiple distinct but related
interpretations. In the past decade, it has been the subject of a great many studies across …

Ualberta at semeval 2022 task 2: Leveraging glosses and translations for multilingual idiomaticity detection

B Hauer, S Jaura, T Omarov, G Kondrak - arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.14084, 2022 - arxiv.org
We describe the University of Alberta systems for the SemEval-2022 Task 2 on multilingual
idiomaticity detection. Working under the assumption that idiomatic expressions are …

Towards Human Evaluation of Mutual Understanding in Human-Computer Spontaneous Conversation: An Empirical Study of Word Sense Disambiguation for …

A Lưu - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Human …, 2022 - aclanthology.org
Current evaluation practices for social dialog systems, dedicated to human-computer
spontaneous conversation, exclusively focus on the quality of system-generated surface text …

Toward a Concept-Based Theory of Lexical Semantics

B Hauer - 2024 - era.library.ualberta.ca
This work aims to address the lack of clear theoretical foundations in computational lexical
semantics, the sub-field of natural language processing pertaining to computing with the …

Homonym Detection Using WordNet and Modified Lesk Approach for English Language

MP Karnik, DV Kodavade - Journal of Electrical Systems, 2024 - search.proquest.com
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a basic and persistent problem that has existed since
its inception in the natural language processing (NLP) area. The process of determining the …

How to Build a Controlled Vocabulary of Concepts for Deep Semantic Search

H Bense - Intelligent Systems Conference, 2024 - Springer
Semantic Search (SS) is well understood and widely applied in search engines, WordNets
(PWN) and ontologies. It is based on Semantic Relations (SR) between different concepts …

Dimensions of meaning: The analysis of lexical ambiguity in “Funny Tweets”@ JokesMemesFacts on Twitter X

N Rahmawati - 2023 - etheses.uin-malang.ac.id
ENGLISH: This research aimed to understand humor which is a linguistically creative
language, especially in the realm of semantics, dimensions of meaning; homonyms, and …

Analyzing the Acquisition of English Polysemy of Chinese High School Students: a Quantitative Study

Y Chen, Y Hou, X Mu - Journal of Education, Humanities and Social …, 2023 - drpress.org
The study explores the acquisition of English polysemy by senior high school students and
two factors that will have an influence on students' acquisition of English polysemy, which …