The categorization of sentential contexts

A new experimental method, involving the sorting of linguistic contexts, is shown to be effective in discriminating the contexts of polysemous words as well as the contexts of synonyms of those words. These results are interpreted as support for the claim that the method of sorting linguistic contexts is a valid technique for studying the contextual information available to support inferences about word meanings.The research reported in this article was part of the author's work submitted as a doctoral thesis to Princeton University. It was supported in part by Contract MDA 903-86-K-0242 between the Army Research Institute and Princeton University. The views and conclusions in this article are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Army Research Institute or Princeton University.