{"pk":32719,"title":"Towards Exemplar-based Polysemy","subtitle":null,"abstract":"In this paper we criticize existing computational models of lexicon for assuming that for every word there is a fixed number of word sense that must be searched for the proper meaning of that word in a context. We reject this sense enumerative view and argue for a  different model of lexicon in which the effects of context are not limited to selecting a word sense, and selected senses can be contextually modulated. W e also explain how patterns of contextual effects could evolve in an exemplar-based fashion. A prototype implementation of this model is also discussed.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Long Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7cd1c3sc","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Mohsen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Rais-Ghasem","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Computer Science, Carleton University","department":""},{"first_name":"Jean-Pierre","middle_name":"","last_name":"Corriveau","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Computer Science, Carleton University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1999-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/32719/galley/23782/download/"}]}