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ACL
2006
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Direct Word Sense Matching for Lexical Substitution
This paper investigates conceptually and empirically the novel sense matching task, which requires to recognize whether the senses of two synonymous words match in context. We sug...
Ido Dagan, Oren Glickman, Alfio Massimiliano Glioz...
ACL
2006
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Estimating Class Priors in Domain Adaptation for Word Sense Disambiguation
Instances of a word drawn from different domains may have different sense priors (the proportions of the different senses of a word). This in turn affects the accuracy of word sen...
Yee Seng Chan, Hwee Tou Ng
ACL
2004
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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. ...
NAACL
2007
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An Information Retrieval Approach to Sense Ranking
In word sense disambiguation, choosing the most frequent sense for an ambiguous word is a powerful heuristic. However, its usefulness is restricted by the availability of sense-an...
Mirella Lapata, Frank Keller
IJCAI
2007
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A Flexible Unsupervised PP-Attachment Method Using Semantic Information
In this paper we revisit the classical NLP problem of prepositional phrase attachment (PPattachment). Given the pattern V −NP1−P −NP2 in the text, where V is verb, NP1 is a ...
Srinivas Medimi, Pushpak Bhattacharyya
IJCAI
2007
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Word Sense Disambiguation with Spreading Activation Networks Generated from Thesauri
Most word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods require large quantities of manually annotated training data and/or do not exploit fully the semantic relations of thesauri. We propos...
George Tsatsaronis, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ion And...
LREC
2008
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Translation-oriented Word Sense Induction Based on Parallel Corpora
Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is an intermediate task that serves as a means to an end defined by the application in which it is to be used. However, different applications have...
Marianna Apidianaki
LREC
2008
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Evaluation of Natural Language Tools for Italian: EVALITA 2007
EVALITA 2007, the first edition of the initiative devoted to the evaluation of Natural Language Processing tools for Italian, provided a shared framework where participants' ...
Bernardo Magnini, Amedeo Cappelli, Fabio Tamburini...
LREC
2008
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Using the Multilingual Central Repository for Graph-Based Word Sense Disambiguation
This paper presents the results of a graph-based method for performing knowledge-based Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). The technique exploits the structural properties of the gra...
Eneko Agirre, Aitor Soroa
LREC
2008
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Enriching GermaNet with verb-noun relations - a case study of lexical acquisition
In this paper we will focus on the lexical-semantic relations in the German wordnet GermaNet. It has been shown that wordnets suffer from the relatively small number of relations ...
Lothar Lemnitzer, Holger Wunsch, Piklu Gupta