Using network approaches to enhance the analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics, IWCS 2013 - Long Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  List, Johann Mattis ^a   Terhalle, Anselm ^b   Urban, Matthias ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LINGUISTICS;

COMMUNITY STRUCTURES; CONCEPTUAL RELATIONS; LARGE DATASET; NETWORK TECHNIQUES; WEIGHTED NETWORK MODELS;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84963888170     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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