polysemy

Examples of polysemous

polysemous
These clusters succeed in distinguishing meanings of expressions even if they are polysemous.
This difference is due to the low number of homonyms compared to polysemous entries.
Abstracting away from extra-linguistic considerations, one has a better chance to get at the central meaning of polysemous entities.
It is not surprising, therefore, that much research on automatic word-sense identification has focused on relatively small sets of polysemous words.
Since its (activity) meaning is predictable, the supine nominal is seldom listed in dictionaries, and when it is listed, it is not polysemous.
By focusing on a relatively small set of polysemous words, much larger data sets for each word can be produced.
The corpus of target contexts consists of 665 verb occurrences of 20 polysemous verbs.
It is true that targeted tagging does not require a tagger to review a new and different list of senses for each polysemous word.
In the accounts cited above, be going to is viewed as polysemous, having at least two distinct meanings ('prior intention' and 'current activity').
Moreover, many words are also polysemous, which, in turn, will lead to distinct conceptual representations for different meanings.
Most jokes involve either polysemous interpretation of related meanings, or ambiguous interpretation of unrelated meanings, of a key word or expression.
English think is not only a semantic prime; it is also polysemous.
The term style is polysemous and in design literature refers to different ideas concerning the artifact, modality, society, culture, period, and so forth.
On the other hand, it could be argued that open is polysemous and that the two sentences exemplify different senses of the verb.
The writings and lives she examines, she argues, are ' polysemous ' (p. xxix), their meaning depending on the questions being asked of them.
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