Posted on July 13, 2008 by Peter Turney
I recently read an interesting paper, How Is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions? The abstract follows:
Meaning cannot be based on dictionary definitions all the way down: at some point the circularity of definitions must be broken in some way, by grounding the meanings of certain words in sensorimotor categories learned from experience or shaped by [...]
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Posted on March 9, 2007 by Peter Turney
Measures of semantic distance (or, inversely, semantic relatedness) have many applications in Computational Linguistics. There are three basic approaches to measuring semantic distance: lexicon-based algorithms, corpus-based algorithms, and hybrids. In an otherwise excellent paper on lexicon-based measures, Budanitsky and Hirst criticize corpus-based measures. I discuss their criticisms here.
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