Word sense disambiguation wsd has been a basic and ongoing issue since its introduction in natural language processing nlp community. But, the problem of word sense disambiguation is an obstacle to the development of computational systems that can fully understand natural language. It has often been thought that word sense ambiguity is a cause of poor performance in information retrieval ir systems. The solution to this problem impacts other computerrelated writing, such as discourse, improving relevance of search engines, anaphora resolution, coherence, and inference.
Home conferences acl proceedings acl 12 word sense disambiguation improves information retrieval. Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval. Noun sense disambiguation with wordnet for software design. A basic form of semantic annotation is to label a word in a document with its correct sense based on the context. Its application lies in many different areas including sentiment analysis, information retrieval ir, machine translation and knowledge graph construction. Pdf noun sense disambiguation with wordnet for software. Word sense ambiguity is recognized as having a detrimental effect on the precision of information retrieval systems in general and web search systems in particular, due. Word sense disambiguation improves information retrieval. A context window is set to control the size of context. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Download citation does word sense disambiguation improve information retrieval.
Word sense disambiguation, in natural language processing nlp, may be defined as the ability to determine which meaning of word is activated by the use of word in a particular context. Proceedings of the 50th annual meeting of the association for computational linguistics volume 1. The belief is that if ambiguous words can be correctly disambiguated, ir. In this paper, we propose a method to estimate sense distributions for short queries. For a software designer it can be helpful in two ways. Word sense disambiguation and information retrieval springerlink.
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