Determining Word Sense Dominance Using a Thesaurus

The degree of dominance of a sense of a word is the proportion of occurrences of that sense in text. We propose four new methods to accurately determine word sense dominance using raw text and a published thesaurus. Unlike the McCarthy et al. (2004) system, these methods can be used on relatively small target texts, without the need for a similarly-sensedistributed auxiliary text. We perform an extensive evaluation using artificially generated thesaurus-sense-tagged data. In the process, we create a word

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Saif Mohammad, Graeme Hirst
• Keywords: EACL 2006, Natural Language Processing, Word Sense Disambiguation, Word Sense Dominance, Word Senses