Algorithms in the historical emergence of word senses.

Algorithms in the Historical Emergence of Word Senses (Supporting Information)

Mental Algorithms in the Historical Emergence of Word Meanings

Words frequently acquire new senses, but the mental process that underlies the historical emergence of these senses is often opaque. Many have suggested that word meanings develop in non-arbitrary ways, but no attempt has been made to formalize these proposals and test them against historical data at scale. We propose that word meaning extension should reflect a drive towards cognitive economy....

Semantics of haq in the Glorious Quran

   Meaning plays a very important role at all levels of linguistic analysis and in linguistics. We can say that the word itself and out of the chain of speech doesn’t show the true meaning. It should be in relation with other signs within the language that its meaning be relived.   Quran, the precious word of Allah, contains words that take a variety of meanings in the syntactic and topical con...

A Mathematical Model of Historical Semantics and the Grouping of Word Meanings into Concepts

A statistical analysis of polysemy in sixteen English and French dictionaries has revealed that, in each dictionary, the number of senses per word has a near-exponential distribution. A probabilistic model of historical semantics is presented which explains this distribution. This mathematical model also provides a means of estimating the average number of distinct concepts per word, which was ...

Ambiguity in Semantically Related Word Substitutions: an investigation in historical Bible translations

Text reuse is a common way to transfer historical texts. It refers to the repetition of text in a new context and ranges from nearverbatim (literal) and para-phrasal reuse to completely non-literal reuse (e.g., allusions or translations). To improve the detection of reuse in historical texts, we need to better understand its characteristics. In this work, we investigate the relationship between...