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Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 2-20, February 2026.Orthodoxy assumes that the first‐person thoughts of an individual are anchored to a stable object. I challenge this assumption by arguing that “I” is polysemous. The perspectival anchor of a first‐person thought could be the bearer of the thought, the agent, the bearer of perception, or a body, to name just a few options.
Susanna Schellenberg
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An Externalist and Contextualist Account of Copredication
CríticaI maintain that polysemy is a contextual phenomenon, but that the nature of the context-dependence of polysemy has been misunderstood, a fact which is brought out by the especially difficult case of copredication.
Daniel Molto
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Can We Say an Ear of Cabbage : On Translating Wordplay in Xi Xi’s Poetry
, 2017 This article reflects on the translation of wordplay in the poetry of Hong Kong author Xi Xi. Xi Xi is a highly imaginative poet: much of her poetry hinges upon specificities of the Chinese language, and one might well ask if this makes her work ...
FEELEY, Jennifer
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, 2016 Vector representations of words have heralded a transformational approach to classical problems in NLP; the most popular example is word2vec. However, a single vector does not suffice to model the polysemous nature of many (frequent) words, i.e., words with multiple meanings.
Mu, Jiaqi, Bhat, Suma, Viswanath, Pramod
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The practicality of moral language and dynamic descriptivism
Mind &Language, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 158-176, February 2026.When speakers make moral claims, they often indicate that they are themselves committed to, or aim to commit their addressee to, certain actions or attitudes. The way that moral language is practical in these ways is often considered to be detrimental for any descriptivist semantics of moral language.
Stina Björkholm
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AlgorithmsThe judicious configuration of predicates is a crucial but often overlooked aspect in the field of knowledge graphs. While previous research has primarily focused on the precision of triples in assessing knowledge graph quality, the rationality of ...
Xin Tian, Yuan Meng
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A Compositional Treatment of Polysemous Arguments in Categorial Grammar
, 1995 We discuss an extension of the standard logical rules (functional application and abstraction) in Categorial Grammar (CG), in order to deal with some specific cases of polysemy.
Buitelaar, Paul, Mineur, Anne-Marie
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On the nature of the lexicon: the status of rich lexical meanings [PDF]
The main goal of this paper is to show that there are many phenomena that pertain to the construction of truth-conditional compounds that follow characteristic patterns, and whose explanation requires appealing to knowledge structures organized in ...
Hogeweg, Lotte, Vicente, Agustin
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A method for constructing word sense embeddings based on word sense induction. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2023 Sun Y, Platoš J.
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The relevance of words and the language/communication divide. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Carston R.
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