New Perspectives on Computational and Cognitive Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation

• Main Author: Kwong, Oi Yee (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computational linguistics.; Electrical engineering.; Neuropsychology.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.; Communications Engineering, Networks.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.; Computational Linguistics.

Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel.  Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractn...

Table of Contents:

• Word Senses and Problem Definition
• Methods for Automatic WSD
• Lessons Learned from Evaluation
• The Psychology of WSD
• Sense Concreteness and Lexical Activation
• Lexical Sensitivity of WSD: An Outlook.