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BMCBI
2006
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Machine learning and word sense disambiguation in the biomedical domain: design and evaluation issues
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...
Hua Xu, Marianthi Markatou, Rositsa Dimova, Hongfa...
CORR
2008
Springer
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A chain dictionary method for Word Sense Disambiguation and applications
Abstract. A large class of unsupervised algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is that of dictionary-based methods. Various algorithms have as the root Lesk's algorith...
Doina Tatar, Gabriela Serban, Andreea Diana Mihis,...
BMCBI
2010
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Knowledge-based biomedical word sense disambiguation: comparison of approaches
Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be u...
Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Alan R. Aronson
GIR
2008
ACM
14 years 15 days ago
Map-based vs. knowledge-based toponym disambiguation
Toponym Disambiguation, i.e. the task of assigning to place name their correct reference in the world, is getting more attention from many researchers. Many methods have been prop...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
CNL
2009
14 years 16 days ago
Polysemy in Controlled Natural Language Texts
Controlled natural languages (CNL) and computational semantics in general do not address word sense disambiguation, i.e., they tend to interpret only some functional words that are...
Normunds Gruzitis, Guntis Barzdins
CLEF
2009
Springer
14 years 16 days ago
CLEF 2009 Ad Hoc Track Overview: Robust-WSD Task
Abstract. The Robust-WSD at CLEF 2009 aims at exploring the contribution of Word Sense Disambiguation to monolingual and multilingual Information Retrieval. The organizers of the t...
Eneko Agirre, Giorgio Maria Di Nunzio, Thomas Mand...
COLING
1990
14 years 18 days ago
Word Sense Disambiguation with Very Large Neural Networks Extracted from Machine Readable Dictionaries
In this paper, we describe a means for automatically building very large neural networks (VLNNs) from definition texts in machine-readable dictionaries, and demonstrate the use of...
Jean Véronis, Nancy Ide
ACL
1996
14 years 23 days ago
Integrating Multiple Knowledge Sources to Disambiguate Word Sense: An Exemplar-Based Approach
In this paper, we present a new approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) using an exemplar-based learning algorithm. This approach integrates a diverse set of knowledge source...
Hwee Tou Ng, Hian Beng Lee
ACL
1996
14 years 23 days ago
An Application of WordNet to Prepositional Attachment
This paper presents a method for word sense disambiguation and coherence understanding of prepositional relations. The method relies on information provided by
Sanda M. Harabagiu
COLING
2000
14 years 24 days ago
Identifying Terms by their Family and Friends
Multi-word terms are traditionally identified using statistical techniques or, more recently, using hybrid techniques combining statistics with shallow linguistic information. Al)...
Diana Maynard, Sophia Ananiadou