We examine three different types of sense clustering criteria with an Information Retrieval application in mind: methods based on the wordnet structure (such as generMization, cousins, sisters...); eooccurrence of senses obtained from Serecot; and equivalent translations of senses in other languages via the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index (ILI). We conclude that a) different NLP applications dem...

An experiment is presented to induce a set of polysemous basic type alternations (such as ANIMAL-FOOD, or BUILDING-INSTITUTION) by deriving them from the sense alternations found in an existing lexical resource. The paper builds on previous work and applies those results to the Italian lexicon PAROLE SIMPLE CLIPS. The new results show how the set of frequent type alternations that can be induce...

SUDOKU’s submissions to SemEval Task 13 treats Word Sense Disambiguation and Entity Linking as a deterministic problem that exploits two key attributes of open-class words as constraints – their degree of polysemy and their part of speech. This is an extension and further validation of the results achieved by Manion and Sainudiin (2014). SUDOKU’s three submissions are incremental in the use of ...

The existence of a polysemy effect in episodic memory is demonstrated through an analysis of data from the experiments of Lohnas et al. (2015) and Healey and Kahana (2016). Three word-length related features are reported: (1) the average distance between the serial positions of consecutively recalled words is an increasing function of the second word’s length; (2) the recall of words in the ord...

In this paper, I will examine the syntactic and semantic properties of a Latin correlative construction, the so-called comparative conditional. I will investigate the extent to which this construction inherits its formal and interpretive features from constructions needed independently in the grammar. While the syntactic properties of the comparative conditional are highly motivated, the semant...