Word sense disambiguation using semantic relatedness measurement

被引：8

作者：

Yang C.-Y. ^{[1
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机构：

[1] Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Tamkang University

来源：

Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE A | 2006年 / 7卷 / 10期

关键词：

Natural language processing; Semantic relatedness; Word sense disambiguation (WSD); WordNet;

D O I：

10.1631/jzus.2006.A1609

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摘要：

All human languages have words that can mean different things in different contexts, such words with multiple meanings are potentially 'ambiguous'. The process of 'deciding which of several meanings of a term is intended in a given context' is known as 'word sense disambiguation (WSD)'. This paper presents a method of WSD that assigns a target word the sense that is most related to the senses of its neighbor words. We explore the use of measures of relatedness between word senses based on a novel hybrid approach. First, we investigate how to 'literally' and 'regularly' express a 'concept'. We apply set algebra to WordNet's synsets cooperating with WordNet's word ontology. In this way we establish regular rules for constructing various representations (lexical notations) of a concept using Boolean operators and word forms in various synset(s) defined in WordNet. Then we establish a formal mechanism for quantifying and estimating the semantic relatedness between concepts-we facilitate 'concept distribution statistics' to determine the degree of semantic relatedness between two lexically expressed concepts. The experimental results showed good performance on Semcor, a subset of Brown corpus. We observe that measures of semantic relatedness are useful sources of information for WSD.

引用

页码：1609 / 1625

页数：16

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