What is word sense disambiguation good for?
| dc.creator | Kilgarriff, Adam | |
| dc.date | 1997-12-23 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:36:10Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:36:10Z | |
| dc.description | Word sense disambiguation has developed as a sub-area of natural language processing, as if, like parsing, it was a well-defined task which was a pre-requisite to a wide range of language-understanding applications. First, I review earlier work which shows that a set of senses for a word is only ever defined relative to a particular human purpose, and that a view of word senses as part of the linguistic furniture lacks theoretical underpinnings. Then, I investigate whether and how word sense ambiguity is in fact a problem for different varieties of NLP application. | |
| dc.description | 6 pages | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9712008 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9712008 | |
| dc.identifier | Proc. Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium. Phuket, Thailand. December 1997. Pp 209--214. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/15820 | |
| dc.subject | Computation and Language | |
| dc.title | What is word sense disambiguation good for? | |
| dc.type | text |