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Harnessing the Lexicographer in the Quest for Accurate Word Sense Disambiguation

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This paper outlines a novel architecture for the development of a word sense disambiguation (WSD) system. It is based on the premiss that one way to improve the performance of such systems is through increased, and more flexible, human intervention. To this end a human-WSD program interface, WASPS1 is being developed for use by lexicographers in organising corpus data in the drawing up of new dictionary entries. A by-product of this activity will be an accurate sense disambiguation program.

A Semi-Automatic Lexicographer’s Workbench for Writing Word Sense Profiles, funded by EPSRC

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  1. ITRI, University of Brighton, UK

    David Tugwell & Adam Kilgarriff

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics, Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Tugwell, D., Kilgarriff, A. (2000). Harnessing the Lexicographer in the Quest for Accurate Word Sense Disambiguation. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45323-7_2

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