Word Sense Induction

Famous quotes containing the words word, sense and/or induction:

    Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
    George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

    In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nurse to humanity during his entire existence and has held earth close around him, like the little obstetrical toad that goes about with a cluster of eggs attached to his legs.
    —E.B. (Elwyn Brooks)

    They relieve and recommend each other, and the sanity of society is a balance of a thousand insanities. She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)