Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780198238423 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 240 str.

Yael Ravin; Claudia Leacock

Opis

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.

Recenzje

The volume provides the readers a broad overview with a historical and issue-based background for the treatment of polysemy, examines and contrasts a range of current approaches, and highlights many unresolved problems in the theoretical understanding of polysemy and the present computational challenges. In essence, the volume will be highly useful for those who are working in the area of polysemy and word sense disambiguation.

O autorze

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.