Context-sensitive synonymy identification for the study of language variation. KU Leuven
The choice of synonyms and translations to a word depends on the context in which that word is used. For example, Dutch 'bos' has different meanings in the sentences 'ik wandelde door het bos' and 'ik gaf haar een bos bloemen'. This influence of context is ignored by most corpus-based models of word meaning. I now aim to make these models context-sensitive and demonstrate their application in the study of language variation. The project will ...