Word Sense Disambiguation for Cross-Language Information Retrieval

We have developed a word sense disambiguation algorithm, following Cheng and Wilensky (1997), to disambiguate among WordNet synsets. This algorithm is to be used in a cross-language information retrieval system, CINDOR, which indexes queries and documents in a language-neutral concept representation based on WordNet synsets. Our goal is to improve retrieval precision through word sense disambiguation. An evaluation against human disambiguation judgements suggests promise for our approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Xiaoyong Liu, Ted Diamond, Anne Diekema
• Keywords: ANLP 2000, Sense Disambiguation Algorithm, Word Sense Disambiguation, WordNet Synsets