Learning Words in Context: a Survey
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This paper surveys a number of theories of word meaning acquisition from context; it discusses possible (text-dependent or text-independent) constraints or biases that might help in the process, and also factors like student ability and the strength of contextual support that aaect the learning task. It also reviews incidental learning from context during normal reading.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007