Polysemy

. Ed(s): Ravin, Yael; Leacock, Claudia

ISBN 10: 0198238428 / ISBN 13: 9780198238423

Published by Oxford University Press, 2000

About this Item

This volume presents theoretical and computational work on polysemy, the term used in semantic analysis to describe words with more than one meaning or function. The contributors here consider the implications for grammatical theory and how they may be addressed by computational means. Editor(s): Ravin, Yael; Leacock, Claudia. Num Pages: 242 pages, 11 black and white figures. BIC Classification: CFD; CFG; CFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 166 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496. . 2000. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Polysemy
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198238428
• ISBN 13: 9780198238423
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.