Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is critical in the biomedical domain for improving the precision of natural language processing (NLP), text mining, and information ret...
Is it possible to use sense inventories to improve Web search results diversity for one word queries? To answer this question, we focus on two broad-coverage lexical resources of ...
In this paper we exploit Semantic Vectors to develop an IR system. The idea is to use semantic spaces built on terms and documents to overcome the problem of word ambiguity. Word ...
Pierpaolo Basile, Annalina Caputo, Giovanni Semera...
Many Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques have been used in Information Retrieval. The results are not encouraging. Simple methods (stopwording, porter-style stemming, etc...
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 ...