A structural approach to the automatic adjudication of word sense disagreements

Natural Language Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 547-573

  Navigli, Roberto ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FLOW OF SOLIDS; INDUSTRIAL PLANTS; SEMANTICS; STANDARDS;

DE FACTO STANDARDS; ELECTRONIC LEXICAL DATABASE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATIONS; LEXICAL CHAINS; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SEMANTIC ANNOTATIONS; SHORT TERM; STATE OF THE ARTS; STATE-OF-THE-ART PERFORMANCE; WORD NET; WORDNET SENSES;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 52149106292     PISSN: 13513249     EISSN: 14698110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1351324908004749     Document Type: Article

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