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This article reports the results of apreliminary analysis of translation equivalents infour languages from different language families,extracted from an on-line parallel corpus of GeorgeOrwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The goal ofthe study is to determine the degree to whichtranslation equivalents for different meanings of apolysemous word in English are lexicalized differentlyacross a variety of languages, and to determinewhether this information can be used to structure orcreate a set of sense distinctions useful in naturallanguage processing applications. A coherenceindex is computed that measures the tendency fordifferent senses of the same English word to belexicalized differently, and from this data aclustering algorithm is used to create sensehierarchies.
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Ide, N. Cross-Lingual Sense Determination: Can It Work?. Computers and the Humanities 34, 223–234 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002475423737
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