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Word sense

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   In linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word.

   For example a dictionary may have over 50 different meanings of the word play [1], each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word usage in a sentence. For example:

   We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater.

   The children went out to play in the park.

   In each sentence we associate a different meaning of the word "play" based on hints the rest of the sentence gives us.

   Computers or people that read words one a time must use a process called word sense disambiguation (Ide and Véronis, 1998; Navigli, 2009) to find the correct meaning of a word.

Contents

     * 1 Related Terms
     * 2 See also
     * 3 References
     * 4 External links

[edit] Related Terms

   Polysemy is the property of having multiple senses. It differs from homonymy, where two different words (lexemes) happen to have the same spelling and pronunciation.

[edit] See also

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     * semantics - study of meaning
     * lexical semantics - the study of what the words of a language denote and how it is that they do this
     * word sense disambiguation - the task of automatically associating a sense with a word in context
     * sememe - unit of meaning
     * linguistics - the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied.
     * sense and reference

[edit] References

     * N. Ide and J. Véronis Word Sense Disambiguation: The State of the Art, Computational Linguistics, 24, 1998, pp. 1-40.
     * R. Navigli. Word Sense Disambiguation: A Survey, ACM Computing Surveys, 41(2), 2009, pp. 1-69.

[edit] External links

     * ”I don’t believe in word senses” -- Adam Kilgarriff (1997)
     * WordNet(R) - A large lexical database of English words and their meanings maintained by the Princeton Cognitive Science Laboratory.

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