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Word Sense Induction Algorithm


Version: June 20, 2026
For now, this version is only available for Spanish.
Pegar aquí una palabra/ Paste a word here
(por el momento solo unidades monoléxicas) / (only single words at the moment)


Examples of polysemous words in Spnish
agente, bajista, cólera, papel, pintura, planta, ratón, viral .

This script accepts a single-word noun in Spanish, extracts a sample of concordances from a general corpus, and applies a graph-based clustering algorithm that, it is here claimed, results in a reflection from the noun's senses, in case it has more than one. This program was created in May 2008 and used to find the different references of initialisms/acronyms, as part of Nazar (2010) PhD thesis . It was also used then with a diachronic corpus in order to detect semantic neologisms, and it was presented at the CINEO Conference in 2008 (Nazar & Vidal, 2010) . A more detailed description of this Word Sense Induction algorithm is available (Nazar, 2013).

References

Nazar, R. (2010). A Quantitative Approach to Concept Analysis. PhD Thesis. IULA, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
http://www.tdx.cat/TDX-0117111-085812


Nazar, R. (2013). Word Sense Discrimination Using Statistic Analysis of Texts. Barcelona Research Art Creation, vol. 1, no. 1.
https://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/brac/en/article/view/608


Nazar, R.; Vidal, V. (2008). Aproximación cuantitativa a la neología. En Mª. Teresa Cabré, Ona Domènech, Rosa Estopà, Judit Freixa y Mercè Lorente (eds.) Actes del I Congrés Internacional de neologia de les llengües romàniques, CD-ROM. Barcelona: IULA.
http://www.tecling.com/nazar/CINEO_Nazar_Vidal.pdf