polysemy

Polysemy is the phenomenon where the same word has multiple meanings.

Polysemy is a major obstacle for all computer systems that attempt to deal with human language.

The sentence can be given an interpretation through polysemy.

The mathematical phenomenon of polysemy has been observed to be a strange loop.

Polysemy is a pivotal concept within disciplines such as media studies and linguistics.

The high frequency and polysemy of the character poses a serious problem for Chinese translation software.

Polysemy is the property of having multiple senses.

The title was a polysemy like the lyrics.

These patterns of polysemy exhibited by 'document' matter for the following reason.

Synonymy and polysemy are fundamental problems in natural language processing:

Again polysemy serves to join the two.

Find relations between terms (synonymy and polysemy).

Otherwise, the dispute probably centres on polysemy.

Sherman was wary of attributing any strict meaning to his work and assumed an essential polysemy in its interpretation.

Other contronyms result from polysemy, where a single word acquires different, and ultimately opposite, senses.

Not only a person can be "healthy", but also the food that is good for health (see the contemporary distinction between polysemy and homonymy).

The twins point out that this conception of polysemy has only limited applicability, for it does not explain ambiguity caused by contextual factors.

LSA cannot capture polysemy (i.e., multiple meanings of a word).

"The Polysemy of the Secular", Social Research, Winter 2009, Vol.

Heterosemy is a special case of polysemy where the different but related meanings of a given morpheme are associated with distinct grammatical contexts.

WordNet also provides the polysemy count of a word: the number of synsets that contain the word.

There are many thousands of such jokes in every language, for they depend for their humor on polysemy or homonymy, which exists in all languages.

The title of this novel plays ingeniously with the polysemy of the Turkish word Roman, which means both "gypsy" and "novel".

Kent Bach, for example, takes Fodor to task for his criticisms of lexical semantics and polysemy.

Automatic exercise generation Exercise types include 'outsiders', polysemy, collocation, verb, cohesion, cloze and sequence.