An experimental study of graph connectivity for unsupervised word sense disambiguation

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 678-692

  Navigli, Roberto ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Graph connectivity; Semantic networks; Social network analysis.; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES; GRAPH CONNECTIVITY; GRAPH-BASED; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; RESEARCH OBJECTIVES; SEMANTIC NETWORK; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; STATE OF THE ART; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WSD ALGORITHMS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; SEMANTICS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FACTUAL DATABASE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; METHODOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED;

EID: 77649273398     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2009.36     Document Type: Article

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