The acquisition and modelling of lexical knowledge : a corpus-based investigation of systematic polysemy

This thesis deals with the acquisition and probabilistic modelling of lexical knowledge. A considerable body of work in lexical semantics concentrates on describing and representing systematic polysemy, i.e., the regular and predictable meaning alternations certain classes of words are subject to. A...

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Main Author: Lapata, Maria
Published: University of Edinburgh 2000
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.653681