Many types of polysemy are not word specific, but are instances of general sense alternations such as ANIMAL-FOOD. Despite their pervasiveness, regular alternations have been mostly ignored in empirical computational semantics. This paper presents (a) a general framework which grounds sense alternations in corpus data, generalizes them above individual words, and allows the prediction of altern...

This paper argues that at least some cases of productive language use, specifically cases of apparent variation in word sense, require a treatment at the conceptual level rather than a lexical semantic solution. It is argued that the lexical semantics should be left underspecified in these cases, and the observed variation in truth-conditions should be attributed to differences in conceptual re...

Polysemy is one of the complex semantic phenomena that have been tackled by many scholars from different points view. Different models suggested about how polysemous words are represented in mental lexicon. One these sophisticated proposed Tyler and Evans (2003). It seems this model has some problems paper directed to solve. The based on two questions: (1) what main aspects network meanings reg...

Our research highlights the problem of term polysemy within terminometrics studies. Terminometrics is the measure of term usage in specialized communication. Polysemy, especially within single-word terms as we will show, prevents using term corpus frequencies as appropriate statistics for terminometrics. Automatic term sense disambiguation, as a possible solution, requires human annotation to f...

OBJECTIVES Polysemy is a frequent issue in biomedical terminologies. In the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS), polysemous terms are either represented as several independent concepts, or clustered into a single, multiply-categorized concept. The objective of this study is to analyze polysemous concepts in the UMLS through their categorization and hierarchical relations for auditing purpose...

"View, Knowledge, Word: The Container Image-Schema Applied to a Case of Proto-Indo-European Polysemy. present discussion aims at reconsidering the theoretical process knowledge in some ancient Indo-European languages light prerequisites offered by cognitive linguistics and prototype theory. Thanks dynamic pattern – which is primitive mental structure historical outcomes polysemic root will be d...