Unsupervised word sense disambiguation rivaling supervised methods

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1995-June, Issue , 1995, Pages 189-196

  Yarowsky, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; LEARNING ALGORITHMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

HAND-ANNOTATIONS; PERFORMANCE; SUPERVISED METHODS; UNSUPERVISED LEARNING ALGORITHMS; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

ITERATIVE METHODS;

EID: 85141919230     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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