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The Latent Structure of Dictionaries
Philippe Vincent-Lamarre, Alexandre Blondin Massé, Marcos Lopes +3
How many words (and which ones) are sufficient to define all other words? When dictionaries are analyzed as directed graphs with links from defining words to defined words, they re…
Hidden Structure and Function in the Lexicon
Olivier Picard, Mélanie Lord, Alexandre Blondin-Massé +3
How many words are needed to define all the words in a dictionary? Graph-theoretic analysis reveals that about 10% of a dictionary is a unique Kernel of words that define one anoth…
Hierarchies in Dictionary Definition Space
Olivier Picard, Alexandre Blondin-Masse, Stevan Harnad +3
A dictionary defines words in terms of other words. Definitions can tell you the meanings of words you don't know, but only if you know the meanings of the defining words. How many…
How Is Meaning Grounded in Dictionary Definitions?
A. Blondin Masse, G. Chicoisne, Y. Gargouri +3
Meaning cannot be based on dictionary definitions all the way down: at some point the circularity of definitions must be broken in some way, by grounding the meanings of certain wo…