Polysemy Theoretical and Computational Approaches [Hardcover]

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.

1. Polysemy: An overview,Yael Ravin and Claudia Leacock
2. Aspects of the Micro-Structure of Word Meanings,D. Alan Cruse
3. Autotroponomy,Christiane Fellbaum
4. Lexical Shadowing and Argument Closure,James Pustejovsky
5. Describing Polysemy: The case of Crawl,Charles J. Fillmore and B. T. S. Atkins
6. The Garden Swarms with Bees and the Fallacy of 'Argument Alternation',David Dowty
7. Polysemy: A problem of definition,Cliff Goddard
8. Lexical Representations for Sentence Processing,George A. Miller and Claudia Leacock
9. Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation,Mark Stevenson and Yorick Wilks
10. Polysemy in a Broad-Coverage Natural Language Processing System,William Dolan, Lucy Vanderwende, and Stephen Richardson
11. Disambiguation and Connectionism,Hinrich Sch??tze

A worthwhile addition to the library of anyone who works on problems that are affected by the slippery nature of word meanings. ...an exceptional volume --Minds and Machines

[This] book gives a very good overall picture of current issues in polysemy and of the diverse ways of approaching the topic. 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. --Computational Linguistics

Yael Ravin is a research staff member at the T. J. Watson Research Center of IBM in New York, l��