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Word Sense Disambiguation Using Wikipedia

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This paper describes explorations in word sense disambiguation using Wikipedia as a source of sense annotations. Through experiments on four different languages, we show that the Wikipedia-based sense annotations are reliable and can be used to construct accurate sense classifiers.

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Notes

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    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias

  2. 2.

    The average length of a paragraph is 80 words.

  3. 3.

    http://www.senseval.org

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    Note that this baseline assumes the availability of a sense tagged corpus in order to determine the most frequent sense of a word. The baseline is therefore “informed,” as compared to a random, “uninformed” sense selection.

  5. 5.

    http://translate.google.com

  6. 6.

    http://www.wiktionary.org

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This material is based in part upon work supported by the National Science Foundation IIS awards #1018613 and #1018590 and CAREER award #0747340. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

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Dandala, B., Mihalcea, R., Bunescu, R. (2013). Word Sense Disambiguation Using Wikipedia. In: Gurevych, I., Kim, J. (eds) The People’s Web Meets NLP. Theory and Applications of Natural Language Processing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35085-6_9

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