An Empirical Study of the Domain Dependence of Supervised Word Sense Disambiguation Systems

Proceedings of the 2000 Joint SIGDAT Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Very Large Corpora, SIGDAT-EMNLP 2000 - Held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2000

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 172-180

  Escudero, Gerard ^a   Màrquez, Lluís ^a   Rigau, German ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cross corpus evaluation of NLP systems; Supervised machine learning; Word sense disambiguation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

BOOSTING ALGORITHM; CROSS-CORPUS EVALUATION OF NLP SYSTEM; CROSS-CORPUS EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; NLP SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; STATE OF THE ART; SUPERVISED MACHINE LEARNING; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION SYSTEMS;

SUPERVISED LEARNING;

EID: 84880740985     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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