Sense-Tagging at the Cycle-Level Using GLDB

This report describes a large-scale attempt to identify automatically the appropriate sense for content words taken from Swedish open-source texts. Sense-tagging, 'the process of assigning the appropriate sense from some kind of lexicon to the (content) words in a text', is a difficult and demanding task in Natural Language Processing and researchers have been engaged in finding a suitable solution to the problem for a very long time. The usefulness of automatically assigning each word in unrestricted text with its most likely sense is necessary for a great spectrum of applications. The sense-tagger described here has been tested both on a random sample of content words, as well as on a large population of a single ambiguous entry. In the first case, the achieved precision was 84,21 %, and in the second 82,75% respectively. Evaluation was made against manually sense-annotated texts

Preface

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing – Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), iv-v. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/4116

Proceedings (all articles)

Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing – Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), v+23 pp. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/4116

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Proceedings of the Workshop on NLP for Reading and Writing - Resources, Algorithms and Tools (SLTC 2008). Editors: Rickard Domeij, Sofie Johansson Kokkinakis, Ola Knutsson and Sylvana Sofkova Hashemi. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 3 (2009), i-ii. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electronically published at Tartu University Library (Estonia) http://hdl.handle.net/10062/4116

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