WSI is the task of automatically inducing the different senses of a given word in the form of an unsupervised learning task with senses represented as clusters of token instances. We aim to study word senses in the wild-in raw corpora- by performing word sense induction (WSI).
The problem of word sense granularity is widely discussed both in lexicographic and in NLP studies. The assumption that senses are mutually disjoint and have clear boundaries has been drawn into doubt by several linguists and psychologists. This technique can be applied not only to cognates, but also to pairs of words which are usually offered by the dictionaries as the translation equivalents of each other. Having selected a set of Russian words included into the Active Dictionary of Russian, which have more than two dictionary senses and have cognates in English, we estimated the frequencies for English and Russian senses using SemCor and Russian National Corpus respectively, matched the senses in each pair of words and compared their frequencies., we revealed cases in which the most frequent senses and whole meaning structures are, cross-linguistically, substantially different and studied them in more detail. We proposed a method for detecting such cases.
Sometimes, however, this is not the case, and the most frequent sense of a word in one language may be much less frequent for its cognate. Learners of a foreign language who encounter a word similar to one of their native language are often tempted to assume that the foreign word and its equivalent have the same meaning structure. Information about word sense frequency is not only useful for explanatory lexicography and WSD, but it also may enrich language learning resources.
We introduced several techniques for determining sense frequency based on dictionary entries matched with data from large corpora. Different senses normally have different frequencies in corpora. When words have several senses, it is important to describe them properly in dictionary (a lexicographic task) and to be able to distinguish them in a given context (a computational linguistics task, WSD).
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