As De Angelis, Federici, and others have noted, there are “no commons without community.” The concept of community, however (as, among others, Jean‐Luc Nancy Roberto Esposito shown), has a dark history continuing up until today, when extreme right‐wing or even downright fascist appropriations the understood it as static identitarian unity bound to specific territory ethnicity. While commons‐sch...

Coarse word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an NLP task that is both important and practical: it aims to distinguish senses of a word that have very different meanings, while avoiding the complexity that comes from trying to finely distinguish every possible word sense. Reasoning techniques that make use of common sense information can help to solve theWSD problem by taking word meaning and conte...

English. We present a novel algorithm and a linguistic resource named CLOSEST after ‘Common SEnse STrainer’. The resource contains a list of the main senses associated to a given term, and it was obtained by applying a simple set of pruning heuristics to the senses provided in the NASARI vectors for the set of 15K most frequent English terms. The preliminary experimentation provided encouraging...