Word domain disambiguation via word sense disambiguation

  • Authors:

  • Antonio Sanfilippo;Stephen Tratz;Michelle Gregory

  • Affiliations:

  • Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA

  • Venue:
  • NAACL-Short '06 Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the NAACL, Companion Volume: Short Papers
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Word subject domains have been widely used to improve the performance of word sense disambiguation algorithms. However, comparatively little effort has been devoted so far to the disambiguation of word subject domains. The few existing approaches have focused on the development of algorithms specific to word domain disambiguation. In this paper we explore an alternative approach where word domain disambiguation is achieved via word sense disambiguation. Our study shows that this approach yields very strong results, suggesting that word domain disambiguation can be addressed in terms of word sense disambiguation with no need for special purpose algorithms.