Allegory: Structure, Interpretation and Polysemy

Polysemy and Category Structure in WordNet: An Evidential Approach

While polysemy is a form of ambiguity that can complicate natural language processing, it is also a rich lexical resource that yields useful insights into the mapping between words and concepts. WordNet, a comprehensive lexical knowledge-base of English word meanings, is replete with instances of polysemy, but also contains many instances of homonymy, and fails to distinguish between both kinds...

Allegory and Ascent in Neoplatonism

In Late Antiquity a series of ideas emerges that adds a kind of buoyancy to allegorism. Readers' impulses toward other regions of knowledge begin to flow more consistently upward, drawn by various metaphysical currents that guide and support them. A whole manner of Platonist-inspired architectures structure the cosmos in the early centuries of the Common Era, among thinkers as diverse as the we...

The Janeway Medal and its allegory.

Linear Algebraic Structure of Word Senses, with Applications to Polysemy

Word embeddings are ubiquitous in NLP and information retrieval, but it’s unclear what they represent when the word is polysemous, i.e., has multiple senses. Here it is shown that multiple word senses reside in linear superposition within the word embedding and can be recovered by simple sparse coding. The success of the method —which applies to several embedding methods including word2vec— is ...

forms, structures and the function of allegory in the mystic interpretation of meybodi

understanding allegories, helps us to give a clear and accepted interpretation of complex and complicated thoughts, and this is said to be a cultural need. the purpose of this research is to find and recognize the allegories used by meibodi in his mystic interpretation of kashf-ol-asraar. the results of the study show that different kinds of allegories are used in this interpretation; and this ...

Virtual Polysemy

We present an approach to lexical knowledge representation where different uses of the same word can be conflated into a single meta-entry which encodes regnlarities about sense/usage extensibility. This approach makes it possible to solve lexical anrbiguities by using contextual information (luring language processing to ground underspecified word entries, and can be efficiently implemented wi...