Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches

ISBN-13: 9780199250868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 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

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".

O autorze

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.