This paper presents a new approach to determine the senses of words in queries by using WordNet. In our approach, noun phrases in a query are determined first. For each word in th...
The scarcity of manually labeled data for supervised machine learning methods presents a significant limitation on their ability to acquire knowledge. The use of kernels in Suppor...
Mahesh Joshi, Ted Pedersen, Richard Maclin, Sergue...
In word sense disambiguation (WSD), the heuristic of choosing the most common sense is extremely powerful because the distribution of the senses of a word is often skewed. The pro...
Diana McCarthy, Rob Koeling, Julie Weeds, John A. ...
We introduce a method for using images for word sense disambiguation, either alone, or in conjunction with traditional text based methods. The approach is based in recent work on ...
Controlled natural languages (CNL) and computational semantics in general do not address word sense disambiguation, i.e., they tend to interpret only some functional words that are...