lexiconeither
Lexiconeither is a theoretical framework and data model for annotating lexical items whose meanings depend on context and may realize as one of two primary senses. The name combines lexicon with either, signaling a built-in duality within a single entry. It is used in computational linguistics and lexicography to capture how context selects a sense and, in some cases, how two senses relate within discourse.
Structure and annotation: Each entry records the lemma, part of speech, two primary senses (Sense A and
Example: For the English word bank, Sense A denotes a financial institution (cue: banking transactions; translation:
Applications and status: Lexiconeither supports word sense disambiguation, machine translation, cross-lingual information retrieval, and lexicography by
See also: Lexicon, Word sense disambiguation, Semantic annotation, Multilingual NLP.