Sense tagging, the automatic assignment of the appropriate sense from some
lexicon to each of the words in a text, is a specialised instance of the
general problem of semantic tagging by category or type. We discuss which
recent word sense disambiguation algorithms are appropriate for sense tagging.
It is our belief that sense tagging can be carried out effectively by combining
several simple, independent, methods and we include the design of such a
tagger. A prototype of this system has been implemented, correctly tagging 86%
of polysemous word tokens in a small test set, providing evidence that our
hypothesis is correct.Comment: 6 pages, uses aclap LaTeX style file. Also in Proceedings of the
SIGLEX Workshop "Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics