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Lexeme connexion measure of cohesive lexical ambiguity revealing factor: a robust approach for word sense disambiguation of Bengali text

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Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the process of finding out the appropriate meaning of a polysemous word based on any given context. The Bengali language inherently comprises a large number of polysemous words. Recently, researchers in the domain of linguistics have been attracted to the problem of WSD in Bengali text due to its numerous interesting applications, viz. machine translation, opinion polarity identification, question-answering systems, etc. In this paper, lexeme connexion measure of cohesive lexical ambiguity revealing factor has been proposed that takes a decision on the disambiguation of senses of a Bengali polysemous word. All the polysemous words have been treated as target words, and a context window of three different sizes, viz. five, seven, and ten are considered based on these target words. This paper has generated lexeme harmony measure for quantifying heuristically of syntactic belongings of a collection of lexemes in Bengali text. The proposed methodology has been extracted a feature vector by considering the cohesive lexical ambiguity revealing factor or CLARF, depending on frame lexeme harmony (FLH), sense lexeme harmony (SLH), polysemy singularity coherence (PSC), polysemy distribution factor (PDF), and relative polysemy singularity coherence (RPSC) factor of a lexeme. This Bengali WSD technique has been applied max-rule of integrated lexeme connexion measure (LCM) of each lexeme of both the testing and training cases score for sense recognition. The proposed algorithm has succeeded in eliminating the drawback of the Bengali WSD approaches, as it can focus on both the lexical and semantic relationships between words. The performance of this algorithm has been evaluated on a dataset that consists of 100 polysemous words of three/four senses. Various evaluation metrics have been used to analyse the results obtained by the proposed algorithm. The obtained results indicate the robustness of the proposed algorithm.

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The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are available in the “Kaggle” repository, https://www.kaggle.com/dsv/3985193 with DOI: 10.34740/KAGGLE/DSV/3985193.

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    Debapratim Das Dawn, Abhinandan Khan & Rajat Kumar Pal

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Das Dawn, D., Khan, A., Shaikh, S.H. et al. Lexeme connexion measure of cohesive lexical ambiguity revealing factor: a robust approach for word sense disambiguation of Bengali text. Multimed Tools Appl 83, 12939–12983 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-023-14676-8

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