Data mining is the exploration and evaluation of large quantity of data to discover substantial, novel, useful and effectively understandable data. Hence determining the knowledge of a document becomes a necessary task in data mining. There are three approaches of metadata in general. They are stylistic, machine learning and knowledge bases. Sometimes the problem occurs when mining a document t...

This paper brings up an important issue, polysemy problems, in a Chinese to Taiwanese TTS (text-to-speech) system. Polysemy means there are words with more than one meaning or pronunciation, such as “我們” (we), “不” (no), “你” (you), “我” (I), and “要” (want). We first will show the importance of the polysemy problem in a Chinese to Taiwanese (C2T) TTS system. Then, we will propose some approaches t...

1. Introduction In this paper we will look into questions that concern what may be considered two of the central meaning relations in semantics, i.e. polysemy or the association of multiple meanings with one form and synonymy, i.e. the association of one meaning with multiple forms. In the domain of polysemy, cognitive semanticists typically face issues which center on the questions of how to d...

In this paper we discuss various aspects of systematic or conventional polysemy and their formal treatment within an implemented constraint based approach to linguistic representation. We distinguish between two classes of systematic polysemy: constructional polysemy, where a single sense assigned to a lexical entry is contextually specialised, and sense extension, which predictably relates two...

Many attempts have been made to discover some systematicity in the semantics of phrasal verbs. However, most research has investigated the semantics of particles exclusively; no study has examined how the multiple meanings of the verb also contribute to the meanings of phrasal verbs. The current corpus-based (COCA) study advances the research on phrasal verbs by examining the interaction of the...

Abstract This paper extends Semiotic-Conceptual Analysis (SCA) to provide a means for comparing and evaluating semiotic relations (i.e. sets of signs) with respect their ability efficiency expressing conceptual structures. One contributing factor is polysemy which refers reusing representamens signs in different contexts. Two types are identified: ambiguous encodes view from part compound simul...

In cognitive linguistics, metonymy is seen as a fundamental cognitive process where one conceptual entity affords access to another closely associated one. Cases of vertical polysemy have also often been treated as instances of metonymy (see e.g. Radden and Kövecses, 1999). In vertical polysemy a lexical form designates two or more senses that are in a relationship of categorial inclusion – e.g...