Joining forces pays off: Multilingual joint word sense disambiguation

EMNLP-CoNLL 2012 - 2012 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1399-1410

  Navigli, Roberto ^a   Ponzetto, Simone Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINATION METHOD; ENSEMBLE METHODS; GRAPH-BASED; GRAPH-BASED ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE BASE; LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE; STATE OF THE ART; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

GRAPHIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84870290978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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