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Polysemous words, which sound the same and spell the same but have two or more than two different meanings are common. Each subfield defines rigourous terms an
by nyrikki 3y ago
Polysemous words, which sound the same and spell the same but have two or more than two different meanings are common.
Each subfield defines rigourous terms and some may be overloaded.
It is impossible to have any universal definition of words that are universal, exact definitions have to be domain specific.
- IshKebab 3y agoProfound, but the AI field has not redefined this term, even if one paper tried to.
- bpshaver 3y agoPolysemous words exist of course, but that doesn't mean they're always unproblematic. The best examples, like bank (where the money is) versus bank (sloped piece of land) are unlikely to be confused because there is no domain where they're often used in conjunction. In this context, its charitable to note that some polysemy is at work within the domain (because the application of terms is so new) and so its useful to have these kind of distinction-making conversations. Many confusions arise when people have different senses of a term but insist there is no polysemy and they're all talking about the same thing.