While polysemy is a form of ambiguity that can complicate natural language processing, it is also a rich lexical resource that yields useful insights into the mapping between words and concepts. WordNet, a comprehensive lexical knowledge-base of English word meanings, is replete with instances of polysemy, but also contains many instances of homonymy, and fails to distinguish between both kinds...

The discrepancy between the theoretical problems experts raise on polysemy, and the ease with which it is everyday understood by speakers, has been defined as the polysemy paradox. The same could be said for other forms of meaning ambiguity in the non-literal side, as for instance metaphor. A sort of metaphor paradox is raised by the fact that metaphor usually goes unnoticed for most people, ev...

Recent research in psycholinguistics suggests that language processing frequently involves mental imagery. This paper focuses on visual imagery and discusses two issues regarding the of polysemous words (i.e.words with multiple related meanings or senses) — co-predication sense-relatedness. It aims to show how can illuminate these issues.

The M.A. study reported here aimed at examining the processing of isolated lexically ambiguous words in L2 by fluent Polish-English bilinguals. Just as many people speak more then one language (Cook 2002: 22), most words prove to have more than one meaning or sense (Rodd er al. 2004: 90). Consequently, it appears crucial to add the ambiguity factor to the analysis of the lexicon. Indeed, a vari...

This study entitled “Analysis the Effect of Polysemy on Speech Learning from Covid-19 by Nadiem Makarim to Elementary School Student”. The objectives this were (1) identify types polysemy, (2) investigate polysemy elements used in speech, and (3) effect speech elementary students. descriptive qualitative is applied study. data obtained makarim using documentation method. Afterward, analysis use...

The paper focuses on the issues of language structures disambiguation in machine translation.The moodel for establishing semantic content of syntactic structures in the English and Russian languages is proposed. Particular attention is given to syntactic polysemy and ambiguity, and the mechanisms of disambiguation. The phenomenon of syntactic polysemy determines the possible multiple transfer s...

Most words in natural language are polysemous, that is, they can be used in more than one way. For example, paper can be used to refer to a substance made out of wood pulp or to a daily publication printed on that substance. Although virtually every sentence contains polysemy, there is little agreement as to how polysemy is represented in the mental lexicon. Do different uses of polysemous word...

We present a study on the automatic acquisition of semantic classes for Catalan adjectives from distributional and morphological information, with particular emphasis on polysemous adjectives. The aim is to distinguish and characterize broad classes, such as qualitative (gran ‘big’) and relational (pulmonar ‘pulmonary’) adjectives, as well as to identify polysemous adjectives such as econòmic (...