Word sense disambiguation using optimised combinations of knowledge sources

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1998, Pages 1398-1402

  Wilks, Yorick ^a   Stevenson, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS; FREE TEXTS; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE; OPTIMIZED COMBINATIONS; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGGER; PART-OF-SPEECH TAGS; SENSE-TAGGED CORPUS; SMALL SAMPLES; WORD SENSE DISAMBIGUATION;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 85149118018     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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