[Lexicog] Fw: Polysemy

[Wayne Leman]

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Rusmadi,

Polysemy would be a good topic for this list. In the software (Shoebox) I
use for my dictionary database, we can easily put in fields for different
senses of a word. I suspect, however, from your comments that your interest
in polysemy is more theoretical, so please tell us more about your concerns.
For instance, would you like some discussion about ways to decide if a
meaning is a different sense of the same word (i.e., polysemy) or whether
different meanings seem so different that the words should be considered
homonyms?

Welcome to this list,
Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Cheyenne website: http://www.geocities.com/cheyenne_language



> What about the treatment of polysemous word in the dictionary? Polysemy
> - a multiple but related meanings for a single form - poses a problem in
> semantic theory and the semantic applications such as lexicography and
> natural language processing system. It seem that in lexicographic
> practice there is no objective criteria for the analysis and the
> treatment of this polysemous word. Anyone out there to share a comment
> on this matter?
>
> Rusmadi Baharudin



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