Word Sense Disambiguation

Navigli, R. (2009). Word Sense Disambiguation: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 41(2), 1-10.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2009

Volume

41

Issue

2

Pages

1-10

DOI

10.1145/1459352.1459355

DOI registrant

Association for Computing Machinery

Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/1459352.1459355

Cited from

linguistics_semiotics

Cited by

3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Context
  • implicature, presupposition, and politeness are all context-relative, and word-sense disambiguation in NLP is the engineering form of the same problem.

    This sourceSurveys the computational task of selecting a word's sense from context, the engineering form of context-dependence.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    The survey's abstract establishes only that WSD is identifying a word's meaning from context computationally; it says nothing about indexicals, implicature, presupposition, or politeness, so it backs one clause of the sentence.

    “Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the ability to identify the meaning of words in context in a computational manner.”

    Read by an automated reader; not a human review. How support was checked

• Polysemy
  • Word-sense disambiguation (NLP): Systems must operationalize the polysemy/homonymy distinction at scale, selecting the contextually appropriate sense for downstream processing

Domain-specific

• Word-sense disambiguation
  • Word-sense disambiguation is the task of identifying which predefined lexical sense of a target word is intended in a particular context; when senses are induced rather than selected from an inventory, the neighboring task is word-sense discrimination or induction.

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