Reducing Polysemy in WordNet
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چکیده
WordNet [4] is the lexical database for English language. A synset is a WordNet structure for storing senses of the words. Synset contains a set of synonym words and their brief description called gloss. For example, well, wellspring and fountainhead have the same meaning according to WordNet, so these three words are grouped in to one synset which is explained by a gloss "an abundant source". A known problem of WordNet is that it is too fine-grained in its sense definitions. For instance, it does not distinguish between homographs (words that have the same spelling and different meanings) and polysemes (words that have related meanings). We propose to distinguish only between polysemes within WordNet while merging all homograph synsets. The ultimate goal is to compute a more coarse-grained version of linguistic database.
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