3 papers
cmp-lg1997
What is word sense disambiguation good for?
Adam Kilgarriff
Word sense disambiguation has developed as a sub-area of natural language processing, as if, like parsing, it was a well-defined task which was a pre-requisite to a wide range of l…
cmp-lg1997
Foreground and Background Lexicons and Word Sense Disambiguation for Information Extraction
Adam Kilgarriff
Lexicon acquisition from machine-readable dictionaries and corpora is currently a dynamic field of research, yet it is often not clear how lexical information so acquired can be us…
cmp-lg1997
"I don't believe in word senses"
Adam Kilgarriff
Word sense disambiguation assumes word senses. Within the lexicography and linguistics literature, they are known to be very slippery entities. The paper looks at problems with exi…