The degree of dominance of a sense of a word is the proportion of occurrences of that sense in text. We propose four new methods to accurately determine word sense dominance using...
Background: Word sense disambiguation (WSD) algorithms attempt to select the proper sense of ambiguous terms in text. Resources like the UMLS provide a reference thesaurus to be u...
We present an extensible supervised Target-Word Sense Disambiguation system that leverages upon GATE (General Architecture for Text Engineering), NSP (Ngram Statistics Package) an...
Mahesh Joshi, Serguei V. S. Pakhomov, Ted Pedersen...
We present a supervised machine learning algorithm for metonymy resolution, which exploits the similarity between examples of conventional metonymy. We show that syntactic head-mo...