Improving English verb sense disambiguation performance with linguistically motivated features and clear sense distinction boundaries

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 181-208

  Chen, Jinying ^a   Palmer, Martha S ^b  

^a BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear regression; Linguistically motivated features; Maximum entropy; Sense granularity; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649545074     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-009-9085-0     Document Type: Article

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