UBC-ZAS: a k-NN based multiclassifier system to perform WSD in a reduced dimensional vector space

  • Authors:
  • Ana Zelaia;Olatz Arregi;Basilio Sierra

  • Affiliations:
  • University of the Basque Country;University of the Basque Country;University of the Basque Country

  • Venue:
  • SemEval '07 Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In this article a multiclassifier approach for word sense disambiguation (WSD) problems is presented, where a set of k-NN classifiers is used to predict the category (sense) of each word. In order to combine the predictions generated by the multiclassifier, Bayesian voting is applied. Through all the classification process, a reduced dimensional vector representation obtained by Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) is used. Each word is considered an independent classification problem, and so different parameter setting, selected after a tuning phase, is applied to each word. The approach has been applied to the lexical sample WSD subtask of SemEval 2007 (task 17).