L’ESPACE SÉMANTIQUE ASSOCIÉ À DESCENDRE
THE SEMANTIC SPACE ASSOCIATED WITH DESCENDING

Summary/Abstract: Polysemy is an important issue in Natural Language Processing and a strong language evolution process. For instance, in French, the meaning of the verb "descendre" (to get down) change with the context : Il descend l’escalier (to go down) ; La mer descend (to decrease) ; Il descend en soimême (to analyse himself) ; Il a été descendu par un boulet à Waterloo (to be killed). For dealing with the problem of polysemy we chose Victorri’s and Fuch’s model, "Dynamical construction of meaning". In this model, each polysemic unit is assigned a semantic space and the meaning of an unit in a particular sentence is the result of a dynamical interaction with all other units of the sentence. We briefly describe the theoretical framework, the dynamical construction of meaning, then we present the semantic space of the verb "descendre" and discuss its relevance and utility.

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