Contextual features of linguistic polysemous terms for their identification in Chinese, English and Russian

The main aim was to develop effective methods for building a corpus designed to identify the linguistic meanings of terms in Chinese, English and Russian based on the patterns of term phrases formation. In the research, we analyzed the dictionary descriptions of linguistic polysemous terms by using a continuous sampling method to study the ways of forming such terms that are significant for identifying their contextual features. The narrow and wide contexts of terms indicating their linguistic meanings were studied on the basis of the selected corpus of the Chinese, English and Russian languages. The novelty of the study lies in obtaining a fundamentally new methodology for creating a corpus designed to recognize linguistic terms in multiple languages; similar studies have not been conducted before. As the results show, there are various patterns of phrase formation in linguistics across the three languages studied, but the most typical structure for them is “Adj. + N.”. As for contextual features, two situations were observed – the analysis of the fixed phrases of some linguistic polysemous terms can assist in recognizing the meanings of the terms immediately, while some term phrases should be used for identification, combined with the terms’ features in wide context.