This paper describes two experiments: one exploring the amount of information relevant to sense disambiguation contained in the part-of-speech field of entries in a Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD); the other, more practical, experiment attempts sense disambiguation of all content words in a text ...
Schools in the States simply admit a lot more students than is usual in most other countries. Also, most young American university students have not traveled in other countries and are not very well-versed in international matters and do not know a lot about people from other countries. Foreig...
The dictionary format, being based on the arbitrary sequence of the alphabet, not on the logical con- nections of associated meaning, encourages us to consider words as atoms or individuals, like disparate people in the telephone directory, with their special place, function and use. This ...
Another piece of evidence can be found in the slightly later work Yiqiejing yinyi 一切經音義 [The Sound and the Meaning of All Scriptures] by Huilin 慧琳 (also known as Huilin yinyi 慧琳音義 [Huilin’s dictionary], compiled before 808 CE12), which incorporates Huiyuan’s annotations on T...