In semantic studies, there is a relationship between words and meaning. However, language learners often experience difficulties in assigning meaning to word or sentence. The purpose of this research find out depth about polysemy, the causes its occurrence examples polysemy verb noun forms. This uses descriptive qualitative method. Data collection techniques use library using journals books tha...

unless there is a specific statement to the contrary. The three categories – animate, concrete, abstract are not discrete. They are rendered porous by the polysemy of the English language. A common example is the noun chair, which might be concrete (an item of furniture) or animate (the person responsible for the process of a meeting). Connell and Lynott (2012: 461) cite substitute and kingdom ...

This paper approaches lexical semantic disambiguation and polysemy in the context of medical language understanding. These issues have been addressed as linguistic and cognitive requirements to build a knowledge extraction tool that turns natural language input into conceptual graphs. Previous results obtained with semantic analysis of medical terms in the domain of transplantation and organ fa...

Polysemy is a major characteristic of natural languages. Like words, syntactic forms can have several meanings. Understanding the correct meaning of a syntactic form is of great importance to many NLP applications. In this paper we address an important type of syntactic polysemy – the multiple possible senses of tense syntactic forms. We make our discussion concrete by introducing the task of T...

Every year new noun-noun combinations enter the English language and become common parlance; compounds like "notebook computer" and "soccer mom". But, why is one pair of words chosen rather than another pair ? For example,why do we not use "patio-tile computer" and "sports mother" ? Clearly, many factors influence the process. We concentrate on the cognitive factor of informativeness; namely, t...

A long-standing challenge in information retrieval is to disambiguate query words for more precise search results. However, two or more meanings of a word in a query, or polysemy, deteriorate the precision effectiveness of information retrieval systems. There is a need for correct and effective information retrieval in many information systems such as health care and customer relationship manag...