Information about Word Sense
In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word.
For example a dictionary may have over 50 different meanings of the word play1, each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word usage in a sentence. For example:
In each sentence we associate a different meaning of the word "play" based on hints the rest of the sentence gives us.
Computers or people that read words one a time must use a process called word sense disambiguation to find the correct meaning of a word.
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For example a dictionary may have over 50 different meanings of the word play1, each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word usage in a sentence. For example:
In each sentence we associate a different meaning of the word "play" based on hints the rest of the sentence gives us.
Computers or people that read words one a time must use a process called word sense disambiguation to find the correct meaning of a word.
Related Terms
Polysemy is the property of having multiple senses. It differs from homonymy, where two different words (lexemes) happen to have the same spelling and pronunciation.See also
- semantics - study of meaning
- lexical semantics - the study of what the words of a language denote and how it is that they do this
- sememe - unit of meaning
- linguistics - the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied.
- sense and reference
External links
- ”I don’t believe in word senses” -- Adam Kilgarriff (1997)
- WordNet(R) - A large lexical database of English words and their meanings maintained by the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory.
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In linguistics, meaning is the content carried by the words or signs exchanged by people when communicating through language. Restated, the communication of meaning is the purpose and function of language.
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A word is a unit of language that carries meaning and consists of one or more morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together, and has a phonetical value. Typically a word will consist of a root or stem and zero or more affixes.
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word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the problem of determining in which sense a word having a number of distinct senses is used in a given sentence. For example, consider the word bass, two distinct senses of which are:
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- a type of fish
- tones of low frequency
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Polysemy ([pəˈlɪsəmɪ] or [ˈpɒlɪˌsɛmɪ]) (from the Greek
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For the specialised use of homonym in scientific nomenclature, see Homonym (botany) and Homonym (zoology).
In linguistics, a homonym
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A lexeme is an abstract unit of morphological analysis in linguistics, that roughly corresponds to a set of words that are different forms of the same word. For example, in the English language, run, runs, ran and running
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Spelling is the writing of a word or words with all necessary letters and diacritics present in an accepted standard order. It is one of the elements of orthography and a prescriptive element of language.
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Pronunciation refers to:
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- the way a word or a language is usually spoken;
- the manner in which someone utters a word.
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Lexical semantics is a subfield of linguistics. It is the study of how and what the words of a language denote (Pustejovsky, 1995). Words may either be taken to denote things in the world, or concepts, depending on the particular approach to lexical semantics.
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Sememe (Greek semaino - mean, signify) - semantical language unit of meaning, correlative to morpheme.
A sememe is a proposed unit of transmitted or intended meaning; it is atomic or indivisible.
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A sememe is a proposed unit of transmitted or intended meaning; it is atomic or indivisible.
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The distinction between Sinn and Bedeutung (usually but not always translated sense and reference, respectively) was an innovation of the German philosopher and mathematician Gottlob Frege in his 1892 paper Ãœber Sinn und Bedeutung (
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