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  <Title>Sense clusters for Information Retrieval: Evidence from Semcor and the EuroWordNet InterLingual Index</Title>
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    <Paragraph position="0"> 8. pocket. --~ ENCLOSED SPACE sack 2 (bag of paper for customer's purchases) and sack 7 (quantity contained in a sack) are related by systematic polysemy as container/containerful. Similarly, sack 8 (pocket) should be related to some sense with the meaning of quantity. Nevertheless, sack 8, whose hypernym is &amp;quot;enclosed space&amp;quot;, cannot be retained in the same way that the former pair of senses, in spite of identical semantic relationship. Systematic polysemy cannot predict, as well, a potential IR duster with senses 3 and 5 (both meaning types of clothing and thus likely to appear in shnilar contexts). Senses 3 and 5 indicate, also, that clustering might also depend on the application domain: they can be clustered in a genetic search, but they should be distinguished if the search is performed in a clothing domain.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> It is interesting to note, finally, that different clustering criteria not only lead to different granularities, but they can produce tangled clusters, asin Onion:  1. Pungent bulb -+ VEGETABLE ~ FOOD 2. Bulbuos plant having hollow leaves cultivated worldwide for its rounded edible bulb --~ ALLIA-CEOUS PLANT ~ PLANT 3. Edible bulb of an onion plant ~ BULB</Paragraph>
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