Lexical Semantics: The Problem of Polysemy

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James Pustejovsky, Bran Boguraev
Clarendon Press, 1996 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 214 pages
Lexical ambiguity is one of the most intractable problems facing language processing studies and, not surprisingly, it is at the core of research in lexical semantics. The papers in this collection constitute not just a set of diverse yet related articles in this core area of research, but rather make up a unique collection of work on the relationship between logical polysemy, sense extension, and discourse structure. Each paper addresses the following questions: what is the representation of a lexical item such that it may assume different senses? What is it about the representation of a lexi.

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