On Universal Colexifications
Hongchang Bao, Bradley Hauer, Grzegorz Kondrak
Abstract
Colexification occurs when two distinct concepts are lexified by the same word.The term covers both polysemy and homonymy.We posit and investigate the hypothesis that no pair of concepts are colexified in every language.We test our hypothesis by analyzing colexification data from BabelNet, Open Multilingual WordNet, and CLICS.The results show that our hypothesis is supported by over 99.9% of colexified concept pairs in these three lexical resources.
Topics & Concepts
PolysemyWordNetComputer scienceNatural language processingLinguisticsTerm (time)Word (group theory)Artificial intelligencePhilosophyPhysicsQuantum mechanicsNatural Language Processing TechniquesTopic Modelinglinguistics and terminology studies