A Taxonomic Classification of WordNet Polysemy Types

WordNet represents polysemous terms by capturing the different meanings of these terms at the lexical level, but without giv- ing emphasis on the polysemy types such terms belong to. The state of the art pol- ysemy approaches identify several poly- semy types in WordNet but they do not ex- plain how to classify and organize them. In this paper, we present a novel approach for classifying the polysemy types which exploits taxonomic principles which in turn, allow us to discover a set of poly- semy structural patterns.