[Corpora-List] Ambiguous words in English and their frequency

[Mike Scott]

Not forgetting the ambiguity in nearly all words, where context 
distinguishes e.g. in the word
/meat/
("uncooked red stuff" v. "brown stuff")
or
/onions/
between "ingredient" v. "crop" v. "commodity-for-trading" v. "complement 
for hot-dogs"
etc.
Quantifying that sense of ambiguity would be tricky!

Cheers -- Mike

On 25/01/2012 19:33, FORT, Karen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I need to find this information (the proportion of ambiguous words in English and their frequency).
> For example, we know that in French 8% of the words represent 30% of the ambiguity.
> Of course, it's very rough, but it's only to have a rough idea.
>
> Can somebody help me with this (of course, I searched for a ref but could not find anything precise)?
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Karën FORT
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Mike Scott

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