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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 13:09:54
From: Nikola Dobric [Nikola.Dobric at uni-klu.ac.at]
Subject: Can You Really Know a Word by the Company It Keeps? An Investigation into the Contextual Influence on Aspects of Polysemy

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Institution: Universitat Klagenfurt 
Program: L 792 343 - Dr.-Studium der Philosophie Anglistik und Amerikanistik 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2012 

Author: Nikola Dobric

Dissertation Title: Can You Really Know a Word by the Company It Keeps? An
Investigation into the Contextual Influence on Aspects of
Polysemy 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Semantics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Dissertation Director(s):
Allan Richard James
Veronica Zima-Smith

Dissertation Abstract:

One of the most pressing issues in lexical semantics is surely the lack of 
solid empirical criteria in accounting for sense distinction. The fact that to 
date the only viable mode of word sense disambiguation has been based 
on the researcher's own judgment implies that clearly defining the 
boundaries of different interpretations of a polysemous lexeme and 
expressing such a statement in empirical (linguistic) criteria is practically 
impossible. The methodology explored within the thesis promises a fully 
criteria-based account of word senses based on the use of representative 
language corpora. The paper aims to test this claim, raised once again by 
the recently re-emerging corpus-based decompositional approaches to 
word sense disambiguation (WSD), prototypicality of senses, and sense 
networks. Through the application of one of the most recent versions of 
this methodology, namely Behavioral Profiling, to the polysemous verb 
look, the paper will try to show how reliable the methodology is in its 
promise of an objective and purely linguistic account for word senses. 






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