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We present a new approach to determining the meaning of words in text, which relies on assigning senses to the contexts within which words occur, rather than to the words themselves. A preliminary version of this approach is presented in Pustejovsky, Hanks and Rumshisky (2004, COLING). We argue that words senses are not directly encoded in the lexicon of a language, but rather that each word is associated with one or more stereotypical syntagmatic patterns. Each pattern is associated with a meaning, which can be expressed in a formal way as a resource for any of a variety of computational applications.
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Hanks, P., Pustejovsky, J. (2004). Common Sense About Word Meaning: Sense in Context. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3206. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30120-2_2
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