At least since the invention of writing, people have been troubled by the problem of what a word means. Dictionaries have traditionally been written with numbered word senses, giving the impression that the different senses of a word are fixed abstract entities, which can be used to separate usages into neat piles according to their different meanings. Adam Kilgarriff’s daring 1997 article ‘I Don’t Believe in Word Senses’ challenged this traditional view of word meaning, presenting an account in which ‘the basic units are occurrences of the word in context’. Kilgarriff went on to develop the Sketch Engine, a statistical tool that enables lexicographers and NLP researchers, teachers, and students to explore the relationship between meanings and collocations (words and their contexts). In this review article, we compare the information provided by Kilgarriff’s Word Sketches with the recently developed Word Embedding techniques and with the results of Corpus Pattern Analysis.

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词义的竞争观点：词嵌入和词义

至少自从文字发明以来，人们就一直为单词的含义问题所困扰。字典传统上是用编号的词义来编写的，给人的印象是一个词的不同意义是固定的抽象实体，可以用来将用法按照不同的含义分成整齐的一堆。Adam Kilgarriff 于 1997 年发表的大胆文章“我不相信词义”挑战了这种传统的词义观点，提出了一种解释，其中“基本单位是词在上下文中的出现”。Kilgarriff 继续开发 Sketch Engine，这是一种统计工具，它使词典编纂者和 NLP 研究人员、教师和学生能够探索意义和搭配（单词及其上下文）之间的关系。在这篇评论文章中，