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Abbreviations
List of Tables
List of Figures
Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Research background
1.2 Research Objectives
1.3 Rationale and significance of the present study
1.4 Outline of the thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Previous studies oncontext
2.2Previous studies on English modality
2.3Studies on word sense disambiguation
2.4Studies on application of Formal Concept Analysis to linguistic research
2.5Space for the current study
Chapter 3 Theoretical Foundation and Data Collection
3.1 Theoretical foundation of the present study
3.2 Methodology of Research
3.3 Data collection and software used in this study
3.4 Summary
Chapter 4 Semantic Categorization of English Modal Verb May
4.1 Reasons for the selection ofmay
4.2 Semantic categorization of English modal verbmay
Chapter 5 Construction of WSD Model byFormal Concept Analysis
5.1 General description of construction of the WSD model
5.2 Manual Tagging of Corpus
5.3 Construction the object set for the WSD model
5.4 Construction of formal context
5.5Word sense disambiguation of English modal verb may
5.6Leave-one-out cross validationand five-fold cross validation
5.7 Rule extraction
5.8 Summary
Chapter 6 Analysis of Attribute Featuresof Semantic Merger of May
6.1 Introduction of attribute features
6.2 Analysis of attribute features of English modal verb may
6.3 Analysis of the contextual features for semantic merger of may
6.4Influential factors for WSD model
6.5 Summary
Chapter 7 Conclusion
7.1 Major findings of the study
7.2 Implications of the study
7.3 Limitations and suggestions for further study
参考文献
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Appendix IV
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