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ACL
2003
13 years 10 months ago
Exploiting Parallel Texts for Word Sense Disambiguation: An Empirical Study
A central problem of word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the lack of manually sense-tagged data required for supervised learning. In this paper, we evaluate an approach to automati...
Hwee Tou Ng, Bin Wang, Yee Seng Chan
ACL
2004
13 years 10 months ago
Finding Predominant Word Senses in Untagged Text
In word sense disambiguation (WSD), the heuristic of choosing the most common sense is extremely powerful because the distribution of the senses of a word is often skewed. The pro...
Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, John A. ...
LREC
2008
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13 years 10 months ago
Targeting Chinese Nominal Compounds in Corpora
For compounding languages, a great part of the topical semantics is conveyed via nominal compounds. Various applications of natural language processing can profit from explicit ac...
Weiruo Qu, Christoph Ringlstetter, Randy Goebel
CICLING
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Text Categorization for Improved Priors of Word Meaning
Distributions of the senses of words are often highly skewed. This fact is exploited by word sense disambiguation (WSD) systems which back off to the predominant (most frequent) s...
Rob Koeling, Diana McCarthy, John Carroll
COLING
2002
13 years 8 months ago
Study of Practical Effectiveness for Machine Translation Using Recursive Chain-link-type Learning
A number of machine translation systems based on the learning algorithms are presented. These methods acquire translation rules from pairs of similar sentences in a bilingual text...
Hiroshi Echizen-ya, Kenji Araki, Yoshio Momouchi, ...