A combination of active learning and semi-supervised learning starting with positive and unlabeled examples for word sense disambiguation: an empirical study on Japanese web search query

Authors:
Makoto Imamura;Yasuhiro Takayama;Nobuhiro Kaji;Masashi Toyoda;Masaru Kitsuregawa
Affiliations:
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan;Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan;The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku Tokyo, Japan;The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku Tokyo, Japan;The University of Tokyo, Meguro-ku Tokyo, Japan
Venue:
ACLShort '09 Proceedings of the ACL-IJCNLP 2009 Conference Short Papers
Year:
2009

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Abstract

This paper proposes to solve the bottleneck of finding training data for word sense disambiguation (WSD) in the domain of web queries, where a complete set of ambiguous word senses are unknown. In this paper, we present a combination of active learning and semi-supervised learning method to treat the case when positive examples, which have an expected word sense in web search result, are only given. The novelty of our approach is to use "pseudo negative examples" with reliable confidence score estimated by a classifier trained with positive and unlabeled examples. We show experimentally that our proposed method achieves close enough WSD accuracy to the method with the manually prepared negative examples in several Japanese Web search data.