Homonyms and context in signalling game with reinforcement learning. [PDF]
PLoS ONEUsing multi-agent signalling game with reinforcement learning, we examine the influence of context on the dynamics of homonyms. In our approach, context denotes additional information sent to the receiver, which helps to recognise the signal.
Dorota Lipowska +2 more
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When a bank becomes a bank, and a bank is the bank but not the bank: Multistability of homonyms’ meaning [PDF]
i-Perception, 2023 Perceptual multistability is well-known and mostly visually demonstrated: Common examples are Necker's cube or Rubin's face-vase that produce qualitatively different percepts continuously oscillating between the solutions despite physically stable ...
Malin Styrnal +2 more
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Stability and Evolution of Synonyms and Homonyms in Signaling Game
Entropy, 2022 Synonyms and homonyms appear in all natural languages. We analyze their evolution within the framework of the signaling game. Agents in our model use reinforcement learning, where probabilities of selection of a communicated word or of its interpretation
Dorota Lipowska, Adam Lipowski
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A Scalable Workflow for Extracting Species Interactions From Ecological Literature Using Large Language Models. [PDF]
Ecol EvolWe present a replicable workflow that uses large language models to extract biological interactions among species from ecological literature automatically. Applied to a large corpus of scientific articles, the workflow extracted 144,402 interactions among 36,471 taxa.
Keck F, Broadbent H, Altermatt F.
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Pupillometric and Behavioural Evidence Shows No Differences Between Polyseme and Homonym Processing
Acta Psychologica, 2023 Ambiguous words can have related meanings (polysemes, e.g., newspaper) or unrelated meanings (homonyms, e.g., bat). Here we examined the processing of both types of ambiguous words (as well as unambiguous words) in tasks of increasing level of semantic ...
Natalia López-Cortés +2 more
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Morphological Homonyms in the Modern Mari Language
Polylinguality and Transcultural PracticesThe subject of the study is grammatical homonyms in the modern Mari language. The scientific work was based on examples from the Mari Language Dictionary, the Mari-Russian dictionary, as well as data from a card file compiled by the author based on ...
Elena G. Lastochkina
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The time course of semantic ambiguity in visual word recognition: behavioral and ERP evidence for the lexical-semantic effect [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyIntroductionHomonyms are words with multiple, unrelated meanings that share a single form and pronunciation. These words provide valuable insights into how semantic representation is retrieved and selected independently of orthography and phonology. This
Joonwoo Kim, Sangyub Kim, Kichun Nam
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Lexical homonymy as a problem of linguistic textology (Based on Njegoš’s Epic Stephen the Little) [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2021 The author of this paper explains the interpretation of types of homonyms (homophones and homographs), based on the epic Stephen the Little by the Serbian poet Petar II Petrović Njegoš, dating from the epoch of Romanticism.
Marojević Radmilo N.
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Phenomenon of Functional Homonymy in Ossetian Language
Научный диалог, 2023 The phenomenon of homonymy in the Ossetian language is considered as one of the complex and multi-aspect problems in Ossetian linguistics and in general linguistic theory.
L. B. Morgoeva
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Word Type Effects on L2 Word Retrieval and Learning: Homonym versus Synonym Vocabulary Instruction [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2012 The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to assess the retention of two word types (synonyms and homonyms) in the short term memory, and (b) to investigate the effect of these word types on word learning by asking learners to learn their Persian ...
Habibollah Mashhady +2 more
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