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Representation of polyseaemia in an electronic dictionary

Abstract

The traditional treatment of polysemy causes many problems of representation : the coexistence of several meanings within the same entry generates extremely complex structures, which are difficult for a computer to exploit. In developing electronic dictionaries, our suggestion would be to generalize and to systematize the splitting up (dégroupement) of the entries : it is better for each use to be considered as a full « word », i.e. to receive an independent address and a specific description (morphological, syntactic and semantic information, translations, etc.). The model allows as many descriptions as there are meanings. This does not necessarily leads to a dispersion of information : relations between the different uses (branchings, shifts in meaning...) can be reintroduced into appropriate fields, which allows a more flexible representation of polysemic connections. Our method can be summarized in this epistemological principle : 'distinguish to unite'.

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