A range of approaches to the representation of lexical semantics have been explored within Computational Linguistics. Two of the most popular are distributional and knowledgebased models. This paper proposes hybrid models of lexical semantics that combine the advantages of these two approaches. Our models provide robust representations of synonymous words derived from WordNet. We also make use ...

This paper is concerned with the semantics of so-called plurals extension, a class lexical such as mountains, cliffs, skies, Hebrides, and Pyrenees. While similar on surface to regular plural nouns, they behave differently in certain regards, including their compatibility determiners, interpretation half N partitives possibility occur weak definites. We will argue that extension denote predicat...

in this paper article of “wine” written by kathryn kueny in encyclopedia of the quran, vol. 5, pp. 481-483 is translated and then is surveyed and criticized by using of shiite and sunni jurisprudential, interpretative and lexical books and some of legal articles of case law of iran. the author firstly mentions nature and quiddity of wine and also local situation of building wine, and then he de...

In this paper I discuss some general problems one is confronted with when trying to analyze the utterance of words within concrete conceptual and contextual settings and to go beyond the aspects of meaning typically investigated by a contrastive analysis of lexemes within the Katz-Fodor tradition of semantics. After emphasizing some important consequences of the traditional view, several phenom...