An Empirical Evaluation of Knowledge Sources and Learning Algorithms for Word Sense Disambiguation

Proceedings of the 2002 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 41-48

  Lee, Yoong Keok ^a   Ng, Hwee Tou ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BOOSTING; DECISION TREES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DECISION-TREE ALGORITHM; EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EVALUATION OF KNOWLEDGE; KNOWLEDGE LEARNING; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; NAIVE BAYES; PART OF SPEECH; SINGLE WORDS; SUPPORT VECTORS MACHINE; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

EID: 85134472546     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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