Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithms and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Agirre, Eneko (Editor), Edmonds, Philip (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Text, Speech and Language Technology, 33
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Linguistics, general.

This is the first book to cover the entire topic of word sense disambiguation (WSD) including: all the major algorithms, techniques, performance measures, results, philosophical issues, and applications. Leading researchers in the field have contributed chapters that synthesize and provide an overvi...

Table of Contents:

• Word Senses
• Making Sense About Sense
• Evaluation of WSD Systems
• Knowledge-Based Methods for WSD
• Unsupervised Corpus-Based Methods for WSD
• Supervised Corpus-Based Methods for WSD
• Knowledge Sources for WSD
• Automatic Acquisition of Lexical Information and Examples
• Domain-Specific WSD
• WSD in NLP Applications.