Probing the representational structure of regular polysemy via sense analogy questions: Insights from contextual word vectors

J Li, BC Armstrong - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Regular polysemes are sets of ambiguous words that all share the same relationship
between their meanings, such as CHICKEN and LOBSTER both referring to an animal or its …

A database of ambiguous Chinese characters with measures for meaning dominance and meaning balance

H Chen, X Xu, H Li, X Yu, R Pan… - Applied Psycholinguistics, 2024 - cambridge.org
Chinese characters hold great potential to help inform and enrich psycholinguistic research
on lexical ambiguity as a large portion of them are ambiguous in nature with meaning …

Assessing lexical ambiguity of simplified Chinese characters: Plurality and relatedness of character meanings

H Chen, X Xu, T Wang - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Lexical ambiguity is pervasive among Chinese characters as many of them are
polysemantic, with one orthographic form carrying unrelated meanings, related meanings, or …

Probing Lexical Ambiguity in Chinese Characters via Their Word Formations: Convergence of Perceived and Computed Metrics

T Wang, X Xu, X Xie, ML Ng - Cognitive Science, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Lexical ambiguity is pervasive in language, and the nature of the representations of an
ambiguous word's multiple meanings is yet to be fully understood. With a special focus on …

Semantic minimalism and the continuous nature of polysemy

J Li - Mind & Language, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Polysemy has recently emerged as a popular topic in philosophy of language. While much
existing research focuses on the relatedness among senses, this article introduces a novel …

Does word knowledge account for the effect of world knowledge on pronoun interpretation?

CR Jones, B Bergen - Language and Cognition, 2024 - cambridge.org
To what extent can statistical language knowledge account for the effects of world
knowledge in language comprehension? We address this question by focusing on a core …

Evaluating Contextualized Representations of (Spanish) Ambiguous Words: A New Lexical Resource and Empirical Analysis

PD Rivière, AL Beatty-Martínez, S Trott - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.14678, 2024 - arxiv.org
Lexical ambiguity--where a single wordform takes on distinct, context-dependent meanings--
serves as a useful tool to compare across different language models'(LMs') ability to form …

Probing the representational structure of regular polysemy in a contextual word embedding model via sense analogy questions

J Li, BC Armstrong - Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the …, 2023 - escholarship.org
Regular polysemes are sets of ambiguous words that all share the same relationship
between their meanings, such as CHICKEN and LOBSTER both referring to an animal or its …

A longitudinal study about gradual changes in the Iranian Online Public Sphere pre and post of 'Mahsa Moment': Focusing on Twitter

S Jafari, A Fathi, A Hajizadegan… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - aclanthology.org
Mahsa Amini's death shocked Iranian society. The effects of this event and the subsequent
tragedies in Iran not only in realspace but also in cyberspace, including Twitter, were …

Managerial Implications for Adopting Advanced Biometric Authentication: A Case Study on Optimizing Keystroke Dynamics Using ISKKC

MN Yaacob, SZS Idrus - International Journal of Business and …, 2023 - myjms.mohe.gov.my
This paper offers a technology management lens for deploying and optimising advanced
biometric authentication systems, utilising the Integrated SVM-KNN Keystroke Classifier …