By saying determine the meaning here I mean selecting a lemma produced by NLTK-like natural language toolkit according to the syntactic function and semantic meaning in the sentence.
By way of illustration, in the following sentence:
Smartphones have grown to be the most essential piece of modern technology, and yet the industry manufacturing them has backed itself into a corner where only two comopanies, Apple and Samsung, are generating any reliable profit.
For the word backed, NLTK provides 12 lemmas:
- back.v.01 be behind; approve of
- back.v.02 travel backward
- second.v.01 give support or one's approval to
- back.v.04 cause to travel backward
- back.v.05 support financial backing for
- back.v.06 be in back of
- bet_on.v.01 place a bet on
- back.v.08 shift to a counterclockwise direction
- back.v.09 establish as valid or genuine
- back.v.10 strengthen by providing with a back or backing
- backed.a.01 having a back or backing, usually of a specified type
- backed.s.02 used of film that is coated on the side opposite the emulsion with a substance to absorb light
How can I let the machine automatically help me choose one?