Abstract
This paper describes two experiments: one exploring the amount of information relevant to sense disambiguation contained in the part-of-speech field of entries in a Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD); the other, more practical, experiment attempts sense disambiguation of all content words in a text assigning MRD homographs as sense tags using only part-of-speech information. We have implemented a simple sense tagger which successfully tags 94% of words using this method. A plan to extend this work and implement an improved sense tagger is included.
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Computer scienceNatural language processingWord-sense disambiguationArtificial intelligenceSense (electronics)GrammarSimple (philosophy)SemEvalField (mathematics)Information retrievalLinguisticsWordNet
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- 1998
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- article
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- 4
- Issue
- 2
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- 135-143
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Yorick Wilks,
Mark Stevenson
(1998).
The grammar of sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation.
Natural Language Engineering
, 4
(2)
, 135-143.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s1351324998001946
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- 10.1017/s1351324998001946