Word Sense Disambiguation
abbreviation(s): WSD
definition: Word Sense Disambiguation is a subtask of semantic tagging, which consists of assigning a semantic class (sense) to a lexical item as specified by a semantic lexicon. If the semantic lexicon specifies more than one sense for a particular lexical item, a disambiguation procedure is needed to decide upon the most appropriate sense(s) for any given instance of the lexical item in text. WSD is not a self-contained application, but it may be included as an integrated part of a semantic processor.
related person(s):
- Eneko Agirre
- Rada Mihalcea
- Adam Kilgarriff
- David Yarowsky
relevant source(s):
related publication(s):
COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS 24:1, Special issue on Word Sense Disambiguation
MIT Press, 1998 JOURNAL.
Computers and the Humanities 34 (1-2), Special Issue on SENSEVAL
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000. ISSN 0010-4817 JOURNAL.
Proceedings of SENSEVAL2.
David Yarowsky.
ACL-SIGLEX, 2002.