Polysemy: Pragmatics and sense conventions

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Polysemy: A Relevance-Theoretic Account

Semi-Productive Polysemy and Sense Extension

Semi-productive Polysemy and Sense Extension

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...

Rules, Radical Pragmatics and Restrictions on Regular Polysemy

Although regular polysemy [e.g. producer for product (John read Dickens) or container for contents (John drank the bottle)] has been extensively studied, there has been little work on why certain polysemy patterns are more acceptable than others. We take an empirical approach to the question, in particular evaluating an account based on rules against a gradient account of polysemy that is based...

Regular polysemy: from sense vectors to sense patterns

Regular polysemy was extensively investigated in lexical semantics, but this phenomenon has been very little studied in distributional semantics. We propose a model for regular polysemy detection that is based on sense vectors and allows to work directly with senses in semantic vector space. Our method is able to detect polysemous words that have the same regular sense alternation as in a given...