Do word meanings exist

Mechanisms of Meaning

  • Philosophy

    Europhras

  • 2017

The hypothesis to be explored in this paper is that meanings are associated with the phraseological patterns associated with each word in normal usage, rather than with words themselves.

Making Sense About Sense

  • Nancy IdeY. Wilks

  • Psychology

  • 2007

It is argued that the level of sense-discrimination that NLP needs corresponds roughly to homographs, and WSD should continue to focus on these broad discriminations, at which it can do very well, thereby possibly offering the close-to-100% success that IR needs (especially search-engine, rather than classic long-query) IR.

Chapter 3 MAKING SENSE ABOUT SENSE

  • Nancy IdeY. Wilks

  • Biology

  • 2005

We suggest that the standard fine-grained division of senses and (larger) homographs by a lexicographer for use by a human reader may not be an appropriate goal for the computational WSD task. We…

The English lexical substitution task

  • Diana McCarthyRoberto Navigli

  • Linguistics

    Lang. Resour. Evaluation

  • 2009

The English lexical substitution task is described and an exhaustive evaluation of the systems participating in the task organized at SemEval-2007 is reported, to provide an evaluation where the sense inventory is not predefined and where performance on the task would bode well for applications.

Word Sense Clustering and Clusterability

  • Diana McCarthyMarianna ApidianakiK. Erk

  • Computer Science

    CL

  • 2016

This article proposes to operationalize partitionability as clusterability, a measure of how easy the occurrences of a lemma are to cluster, and test two ways of measuring clusterability: existing measures from the machine learning literature that aim to measure the goodness of optimal k-means clusterings, and the idea that if aLemma is more clusterable, two clusterings based on two different “views” of the same data points will be more congruent.

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Hanks, P. Do Word Meanings Exist?.
Computers and the Humanities 34, 205–215 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002471322828

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206 HANKS they are two different words that happen to be spelled the same. They have different etymologies, different uses, and the only thing that they have in common is their spelling. Obviously, computational procedures for distinguishing homographs are both desirable and possible. But in practice they don’t get us very far along the road to text understanding. Linguists used to engage in the practice of inventing sentences such as “I went to the bank” and then claiming that it is ambiguous because it invokes both meanings of bank equally plausibly. It is now well known that in actual usage ambiguities of this sort hardly ever arise. Contextual clues disambiguate, and can be computed to make choice possible, using procedures such as that described in Church and Hanks (1989). On the one hand we find expressions such as: people without bank accounts; his bank balance; bank charges; gives written notice to the bank; in the event of a bank ceasing to conduct business; high levels of bank deposits; the bank’s solvency; a bank’s internal audit department; a bank loan; a bank manager; commercial banks; High-Street banks; European and Japanese banks; a granny who tried to rob a bank and

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