Good neighbors make good senses: Exploiting distributional similarity for unsupervised WSD

Coling 2008 - 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 65-72

  Brody, Samuel ^a   Lapata, Mirella ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC METHOD; DATA SETS; DISTRIBUTIONAL SIMILARITIES; SUPERVISED CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING SETS; UNSUPERVISED METHOD; WORD SENSE;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 80053405461     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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