In this paper I want to show why metaphor and metonymy are, on the one hand side, two distinct types of generating new meanings for existing expressions, and why, on the other hand, there are many cases which can either been viewed as metaphor or as metonymy, without the one way of understanding excluding the other. After having given a general characterization of metaphoric and metonymic conce...

Basque, a language spoken on both sides of the western Pyrenees, has rich lexical and grammatical resources for expressing space. It has five different locational cases and over thirty locational postpositions, mostly spatial nouns which can take any of the locational casesuffixes. The five locational cases of Basque are locative –n, ablative –ti(k), allative –ra(t), terminative allative –raino...

The lexicon consists of a set of word meanings and their semantic relationships. A systematic representation of the English lexicon based in psycholinguistic considerations has been put together in the database Wordnet in a long-term collaborative effort. We present here a quantitative study of the graph structure of Wordnet to understand the global organization of the lexicon. Semantic links f...

Genomic IR, characterized by its highly specific information need, severe synonym and polysemy problem, long term name and rapid growing literature size, is challenging IR community. In this paper, we are focused on addressing the synonym and polysemy issue under the language modeling framework. Unlike the ways translation model and traditional query expansion techniques approach to this issue,...

Theoretical linguistic accounts of lexical ambiguity distinguish between homonymy, where words that share a lexical form have unrelated meanings, and polysemy, where the meanings are related. The present study explored the psychological reality of this theoretical assumption by asking whether there is evidence that homonyms and polysemes are represented and processed differently in the brain. W...

Computational linguistics is generally considered to be the branch of engineering that uses computers to do useful things with linguistic signals, but it can also be viewed as an extended test of computational theories of human cognition; it is this latter perspective that psychologists find most interesting. Language provides a critical test for the hypothesis that physical symbol systems are ...

Due to the high cost of manual annotation, learning directly from web has attracted broad attention. One issue that limits performance current webly supervised models is problem visual polysemy. In this work, we present a novel framework resolves polysemy by dynamically matching candidate text queries with retrieved images. Specifically, our proposed includes three major steps: first discover a...

This paper develops new treatment of the problem of cross-sortal predication and copredication in particular. We argue that the solution to these predicate-argument sort mismatches can be solved by a more flexible treatment of polysemy based on the notion of dependent type and dynamic construction of meaning.

The linguistic theory of Applicative and Cognitive Grammar analyses the language in three levels as follows: the linguistic level, the predicative level, and the semanticocognitive level. The meaning of the words is described at the semanticocognitive level. Here we give the description of the verbal semantics in order to build a lemmatized lexicon of polysemic words. On the one hand, the conte...

Polysemy is one of the major causes of difficulties in selnantic clustering of words in a corpus. In this paper, we first; give a definition of polysemy from the viewpoint of clustering and then, b~rsed on this definition, we propose a clustering method which reeognises verbal 1)olysemics from a textual corpus. The results of experiments denmnst ra te the effectiveness of the proI)osed method. ...