Words with Multiple Meanings

Acquiring Vocabulary through Human Robot Interaction: A Learning Architecture for Grounding Words with Multiple Meanings

This paper presents a robust methodology for grounding vocabulary in robots. A social language grounding experiment is designed, where, a human instructor teaches a robotic agent the names of the objects present in a visually shared environment. Any system for grounding vocabulary has to incorporate the properties of gradual evolution and lifelong learning. The learning model of the robot is ad...

Hidden Jargon: Everyday Words with Meanings Specific to Statistics

If students of statistics or our collaborators from other disciplines do not immediately understand the terms “probit regression” or “kriging”, we are not surprised and are happy to carefully explain these advanced statistical terms and concepts. A different class of words has one or more distinct statistical meanings in addition to their standard English definitions and is ripe for confusion a...

levels of exterior meanings of quranic words

any language foremost is composed of words and words are one of the most important elements in conveying meaning and they have different diversities and levels in conveying this meaning. quranic words are not the exception; therefore, to discover and to understand the different levels of conveying meaning (exterior and inner) by words, the quran reader can be more aware of the meaning and the p...

The Dependence of Frequency Distributions on Multiple Meanings of Words, Codes and Signs

The dependence of the frequency distributions due to multiple meanings of words in a text is investigated by deleting letters. By coding the words with fewer letters the number of meanings per coded word increases. This increase is measured and used as an input in a predictive theory. For a text written in English, the word-frequency distribution is broad and fat-tailed, whereas if the words ar...

The Multiple Meanings of Teleological