Conceptual Spaces, Features, and Word Meanings: The Case of Dutch Shirts
Conceptual Spaces, Features, and Word Meanings: The Case of Dutch Shirts
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概念空间、特征和词义：荷兰衬衫案例
DOI：
10.1007/978-3-319-15021-5_4
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发表时间：
2015
影响因子：
7.4
通讯作者：
J. Zwarts
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作者：
J. Zwarts
本文探讨了如何构建一个概念空间的词义表示和可视化的一个特定的领域，即荷兰语的话，不同类型的衬衫。它借鉴了早期的实证语料库为基础的研究，已经确定了不同的功能，唯一地描述每一个这些类型和不同的方式，他们在时尚杂志中的词汇描述。本研究定义了一个度量，使得有可能构建一个基于特征的空间，其中每个荷兰衬衫术语的扩展可以可视化，并且可以研究单词的分布和对该分布的不同约束的有效性：合取性，凸性，连通性，连贯性和中心性。虽然本文得出的结论是，这些限制的明确的结论，只有在更完整的词汇数据集的基础上，它展示了潜在的概念空间的方法来研究词义。
This paper explores how a conceptual space for the representation of word meanings can be constructed and visualized for one particular domain, namely Dutch words for different types of shirts. It draws on earlier empirical corpus-based research that has identified different features for uniquely describing each of these types and different ways in which they are lexically described in fashion magazines. The present study defines a metric that makes it possible to construct a feature-based space in which the extension of each of the Dutch shirt terms can be visualized and in which it is possible to study the distribution of words and the validity of different constraints on that distribution: conjunctivity, convexity, connectivity, coherence, and centrality. Although the paper concludes that definite conclusions about these constraints are only possible on the basis of more complete lexical datasets, it demonstrates the potential of the conceptual space approach for studying word meanings.