Adaptive Resonance Theory as a model of polysemy and vagueness in the cognitive lexicon

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 507-537

  Dunbar, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Resonance Theory; Ambiguity; Computational lexicography and lexicology; Computational model; Gradable categories; Polysemy; Usage based analysis; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870199509     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2012-0015     Document Type: Article

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