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Title Lexicalised Systematic Polysemy in WordNet
Authors Peters Ivonne (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK, ivonne@dcs.shef.ac.uk)
Peters Wim (Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK, w.peters@dcs.shef.ac.uk )
Keywords  
Session Session WO17 - Semantic Lexicons
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Abstract This paper describes an attempt to gain more insight into the mechanisms that underlie lexicalised sy phenomenon is interpreted as systematic sense combinations that are valid for more than one word. The WordNet is exploited to create a working definition of systematic polysemy and extract polysemic patt isation that allows the identification of fine-grained semantic relations between the senses of the words par ic polysemic pattern.