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Chaining and the computational problem. (A) Hypothetical sense chaining for English face. Senses and dates of appearance in parentheses are from The Historical Thesaurus of English (12). (B) Illustration of the problem. Senses of a word are represented by dots, with red indicating the earliest recorded sense. Can the order of historical sense development be predicted, and, if so, by what algorithms?
