The noisy channel model for unsupervised word sense disambiguation

Computational Linguistics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 111-128

  Yuret, Deniz ^a   Yatbaz, Mehmet Ali ^a  

^a KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS;

COARSE-GRAINED; CONTEXT DEPENDENT; NOISY CHANNEL MODELS; PROBABILISTIC MODELING; SEMANTIC CLASS; STATISTICAL LANGUAGE MODELING; SUPERVISED SYSTEMS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 77049109829     PISSN: 08912017     EISSN: 15309312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/coli.2010.36.1.36103     Document Type: Article

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