Ambiguity's aftermath: How age differences in resolving lexical ambiguity affect subsequent comprehension

Gesture and its impact of resolving lexical ambiguity

The study aimed to shed light on the use of gesture in resolving lexical ambiguity employed by TEFL students. To this end, 60 intermediate Iranian learners, studying at Kish Way Language School in Iran were recruited. The participants were randomly put into two experimental groups and one control group. Both of the experimental groups received the same teaching approach, i.e. teaching homonyms ...

Lexical ambiguity in sentence comprehension.

An event-related fMRI paradigm was used to investigate brain activity during the reading of sentences containing either a lexically ambiguous word or an unambiguous control word. Higher levels of activation occurred during the reading of sentences containing a lexical ambiguity. Furthermore, the activated cortical network differed, depending on: (1) whether the sentence contained a balanced (i....

Resolving lexical ambiguity in a deterministic parser

Lexical ambiguity and especially part-of-speech ambiguity is the source of much non-determinism in parsing. As a result, the resolution of lexical ambiguity presents deterministic parsing with a major test. If deterministic parsing is to be viable, it must be shown that lexical ambiguity can be resolved easily deterministically. In this paper, it is shown that Marcus's "diagnostics" can be hand...

Resolving Lexical Ambiguity in Tensor Regression Models of Meaning

This paper provides a method for improving tensor-based compositional distributional models of meaning by the addition of an explicit disambiguation step prior to composition. In contrast with previous research where this hypothesis has been successfully tested against relatively simple compositional models, in our work we use a robust model trained with linear regression. The results we get in...

Resolving lexical ambiguity computationally with spreading activation and Polaroid Words