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...
Supervised learning methods for WSD yield better performance than unsupervised methods. Yet the availability of clean training data for the former is still a severe challenge. In ...
Given the recent trend to evaluate the performance of word sense disambiguation systems in a more application-oriented set-up, we report on the construction of a multilingual benc...
This paper describes automatic techniques for mapping 9611 entries in a database of English verbs to WordNet senses. The verbs were initially grouped into 491 classes based on syn...
Rebecca Green, Lisa Pearl, Bonnie J. Dorr, Philip ...
We introduce a method for using images for word sense disambiguation, either alone, or in conjunction with traditional text based methods. The approach is based in recent work on ...