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CIKM
2011
Springer
12 years 11 months ago
Focusing on novelty: a crawling strategy to build diverse language models
Word prediction performed by language models has an important role in many tasks as e.g. word sense disambiguation, speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, query spelling an...
Luciano Barbosa, Srinivas Bangalore
AAAI
2011
12 years 11 months ago
A Functional Analysis of Historical Memory Retrieval Bias in the Word Sense Disambiguation Task
Effective access to knowledge within large declarative memory stores is one challenge in the development and understanding of long-living, generally intelligent agents. We focus o...
Nate Derbinsky, John E. Laird
JCDL
2011
ACM
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13 years 2 months ago
Measuring historical word sense variation
We describe here a method for automatically identifying word sense variation in a dated collection of historical books in a large digital library. By leveraging a small set of kno...
David Bamman, Gregory Crane
FLAIRS
2011
13 years 2 months ago
Impact of Word Sense Disambiguation on Ordering Dictionary Definitions in Vocabulary Learning Tutors
Past research has shown that dictionaries and glosses can be beneficial in computer assisted language learning, particularly in vocabulary learning. We propose that L2 vocabulary ...
Kevin Dela Rosa, Maxine Eskenazi
ACL
2011
13 years 3 months ago
Local and Global Algorithms for Disambiguation to Wikipedia
Disambiguating concepts and entities in a context sensitive way is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. The comprehensiveness of Wikipedia has made the online enc...
Lev-Arie Ratinov, Dan Roth, Doug Downey, Mike Ande...
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
What's in a Preposition? Dimensions of Sense Disambiguation for an Interesting Word Class
Choosing the right parameters for a word sense disambiguation task is critical to the success of the experiments. We explore this idea for prepositions, an often overlooked word c...
Dirk Hovy, Stephen Tratz, Eduard H. Hovy
COLING
2010
13 years 6 months ago
Jointly Modeling WSD and SRL with Markov Logic
Semantic role labeling (SRL) and word sense disambiguation (WSD) are two fundamental tasks in natural language processing to find a sentence-level semantic representation. To date...
Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu
IMCSIT
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Evaluation of Clustering Algorithms for Polish Word Sense Disambiguation
Word Sense Disambiguation in text is still a difficult problem as the best supervised methods require laborious and costly manual preparation of training data. Thus, this work focu...
Bartosz Broda, Wojciech Mazur
ACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
All Words Domain Adapted WSD: Finding a Middle Ground between Supervision and Unsupervision
In spite of decades of research on word sense disambiguation (WSD), all-words general purpose WSD has remained a distant goal. Many supervised WSD systems have been built, but the...
Mitesh M. Khapra, Anup Kulkarni, Saurabh Sohoney, ...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 9 months ago
Subjectivity Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper investigates a new task, subjectivity word sense disambiguation (SWSD), which is to automatically determine which word instances in a corpus are being used with subject...
Cem Akkaya, Janyce Wiebe, Rada Mihalcea