Ide and Wilks argue that a fine-grained division of senses may not be an appropriate goal for a computational WSD task (Ide and Wilks, 2006). They propose that NLP needs correspond roughly to homograph-level distinctions, although they acknowledge some evidence of broad level distinctions within a homograph. They further argue that machine translation requires finer-grained distinctions than in...

morphometric differentiations may explain biogeographic distinctions among populations of a given species. the possibility of morphometric distinctions between two populations of eurygaster maura l. collected from the northeast (golestan province) and the northwest (azarbayejan province) of iran was examined using principal component analysis over 25 body measurements (eight absolute and 17 pro...

Two things are striking about this medieval definition. The first is that it is very close to the modern conception of formal consequence one finds in Bolzano and Tarski3. The second is that although Buridan and the other fourteenth-century logicians state these distinctions with a great deal of precision, they say almost nothing about the point of the distinctions. Why are these distinctions d...