Using syntactic dependency as local context to resolve word sense ambiguity

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 1997-July, Issue , 1997, Pages 64-71

  Lin, Dekang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CORPUS-BASED; KNOWLEDGE SOURCES; LOCAL CONTEXTS; SENSE AMBIGUITIES; SENSE-TAGGED CORPUS; SYNTACTIC DEPENDENCIES; WORD SENSE;

EID: 85149124268     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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