Word sense disambiguation improves information retrieval

50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2012 - Proceedings of the Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 273-282

  Zhong, Zhi ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IR SYSTEMS; LANGUAGE MODELING; TREC COLLECTION; WORD SENSE; WORD-SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84876800179     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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