Browsing BCBL-Publications by Author "Beekhuizen, Barend"
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A comparison of homonym meaning frequency estimates derived from movie and television subtitles, free association, and explicit ratings
Rice, Caitlin A.; Beekhuizen, Barend; Dubrovsky, Vladimir; Stevenson, Suzanne; Armstrong, Blair C. (Behavior Research Methods, 2019)Most words are ambiguous, with interpretation dependent on context. Advancing theories of ambiguity resolution is important for any general theory of language processing, and for resolving inconsistencies in observed ... -
Probing Lexical Ambiguity: Word Vectors Encode Number and Relatedness of Senses
Beekhuizen, Barend; Armstrong, Blair C.; Stevenson, Suzanne (Cognitive Science, 2021)Lexical ambiguity—the phenomenon of a single word having multiple, distinguishable senses —is pervasive in language. Both the degree of ambiguity of a word (roughly, its number of senses) and the relatedness of those ...