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Four Text Mining Ambiguities
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Homonomy: same word, different
meaning by accident of history
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Bank
• a. Mary walked along the bank
of the
river.
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b. HarborBank is the richest bank
in the
city.
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Polysemy: same word or form, but
different, albeit related meaning
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Bank
a. The bank
raised its interest rates yesterday.
b. The store is next to the newly constructed
bank
.
c. The bank
appeared first in Italy in the
Renaissance.
Synonymy: synonyms, different words,
similar or same meaning; can
substitute one word for the other
without changing the meaning of the
sentence substantively.
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Synonyms can have differing connotations...
a. Miss Nelson became a kind of big
sister to
Benjamin.
b. Miss Nelson became a kind of large
sister to
Benjamin.
Hyponymy: concept hierarchy or
subclass (subordinates)
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Animal (noun)
a. dog
b. cat
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Injury
–
a. Broken leg, contusion...
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