Annual review of information science and technology, vol. 22
An experiment in computational discrimination of English word senses
IBM Journal of Research and Development
Coefficients of combining concept classes in a collection
SIGIR '88 Proceedings of the 11th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Word sense disambiguation using machine-readable dictionaries
SIGIR '89 Proceedings of the 12th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Models for retrieval with probabilistic indexing
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal - Modeling data, information and knowledge
A tractable machine dictionary as a resource for computational semantics
Computational lexicography for natural language processing
SIGDOC '86 Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation
Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding
Naive Semantics for Natural Language Understanding
Information Retrieval
Lexical Ambiguity Resolution: Perspectives from Psycholinguistics, Neuropsychology, and Artificial Intelligence
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
The structure of the merriam-webster pocket dictionary
The structure of the merriam-webster pocket dictionary
Lexical semantics and preference semantics analysis
Lexical semantics and preference semantics analysis
A tool for investigating the synonymy relation in a sense disambiguated thesaurus
ANLC '88 Proceedings of the second conference on Applied natural language processing
Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval.
Automatic Information Organization and Retrieval.
The use of phrases and structured queries in information retrieval
SIGIR '91 Proceedings of the 14th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Using WordNet to disambiguate word senses for text retrieval
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Viewing morphology as an inference process
SIGIR '93 Proceedings of the 16th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An interface for navigating clustered document sets returned by queries
COCS '93 Proceedings of the conference on Organizational computing systems
Word sense disambiguation for free-text indexing using a massive semantic network
CIKM '93 Proceedings of the second international conference on Information and knowledge management
Word sense disambiguation and information retrieval
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Natural-language retrieval of images based on descriptive captions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Natural language processing for information retrieval
Communications of the ACM
Textual context analysis for information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The impact on retrieval effectiveness of skewed frequency distributions
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Flexible querying of WEB documents
Proceedings of the 2002 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Information Retrieval
Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive?
Information Extraction: Towards Scalable, Adaptable Systems
Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Information Extraction: Towards Scalable, Adaptable Systems
Use of Dependency Microcontexts in Information Retrieval
SOFSEM '00 Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Informatics
Lower dimensional representation of text data in vector space based information retrieval
Computational information retrieval
Word sense disambiguation in information retrieval revisited
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Flexible representation and retrieval of WEB documents
Intelligent exploration of the web
Introduction to the special issue on word sense disambiguation: the state of the art
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Topical clustering of MRD senses based on information retrieval techniques
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Automatic word sense discrimination
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Disambiguating highly ambiguous words
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on word sense disambiguation
Selective sampling for example-based word sense disambiguation
Computational Linguistics
Natural Language Engineering
Semantic tagging of unknown proper nouns
Natural Language Engineering
Finding a domain-appropriate sense inventory for semantically tagging a corpus
Natural Language Engineering
Automatic selection of class labels from a thesaurus for an effective semantic tagging of corpora
ANLC '97 Proceedings of the fifth conference on Applied natural language processing
Finding content-bearing terms using term similarities
EACL '99 Proceedings of the ninth conference on European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Expansion of multi-word terms for indexing and retrieval using morphology and syntax
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Homonymy and polysemy in information retrieval
ACL '98 Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and Eighth Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Word sense ambiguation: clustering related senses
COLING '94 Proceedings of the 15th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 2
User Modelling for News Web Sites with Word Sense Based Techniques
User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction
To what extent does case contribute to verb sense disambiguation?
COLING '96 Proceedings of the 16th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Information retrieval using word senses: root sense tagging approach
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
An effective approach to document retrieval via utilizing WordNet and recognizing phrases
Proceedings of the 27th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Ontology-based personalized search and browsing
Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
Use of dependency tree structures for the microcontext extraction
RANLPIR '00 Proceedings of the ACL-2000 workshop on Recent advances in natural language processing and information retrieval: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 11
Semantic indexing using WordNet senses
RANLPIR '00 Proceedings of the ACL-2000 workshop on Recent advances in natural language processing and information retrieval: held in conjunction with the 38th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Volume 11
Automatic identification of user interest for personalized search
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on World Wide Web
On the importance of being diverse: analysing similarity and diversity in web search
Intelligent information processing II
Differentiating homonymy and polysemy in information retrieval
HLT '05 Proceedings of the conference on Human Language Technology and Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
A review of ontology based query expansion
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
A large-scale evaluation and analysis of personalized search strategies
Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web
Computational Linguistics
Personalized query expansion for the web
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
HLT '02 Proceedings of the second international conference on Human Language Technology Research
Analysis of equivalence mapping for terminology services
Journal of Information Science
Dealing with P2P semantic heterogeneity through query expansion and interpretation
DaMaP '08 Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Data management in peer-to-peer systems
Ambiguous queries: test collections need more sense
Proceedings of the 31st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A Simple WordNet-Ontology Based Email Retrieval System for Digital Forensics
PAISI, PACCF and SOCO '08 Proceedings of the IEEE ISI 2008 PAISI, PACCF, and SOCO international workshops on Intelligence and Security Informatics
Description Logic to Model a Domain Specific Information Retrieval System
DEXA '08 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications
Word sense disambiguation: A survey
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Semantically driven snippet selection for supporting focused web searches
Data & Knowledge Engineering
Exploring criteria for successful query expansion in the genomic domain
Information Retrieval
Work in progress: effects of multiple words on ambiguity in information retrieval
Proceedings of the 46th Annual Southeast Regional Conference on XX
A generalized vector space model for text retrieval based on semantic relatedness
EACL '09 Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
The cooperative web: a step towards web intelligence
ICWE'03 Proceedings of the 2003 international conference on Web engineering
Document clustering of scientific texts using citation contexts
Information Retrieval
Analysis of word sense disambiguation-based information retrieval
CLEF'08 Proceedings of the 9th Cross-language evaluation forum conference on Evaluating systems for multilingual and multimodal information access
Inducing word senses to improve web search result clustering
EMNLP '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
User behaviour and lexical ambiguity in cross-language image retrieval
CLEF'09 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Cross-language evaluation forum: multimedia experiments
UFRGS@CLEF2009: retrieval by numbers
CLEF'09 Proceedings of the 10th cross-language evaluation forum conference on Multilingual information access evaluation: text retrieval experiments
A semantic query approach to personalized e-catalogs service system
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research
Learning query ambiguity models by using search logs
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
Enriching document representation via translation for improved monolingual information retrieval
Proceedings of the 34th international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in Information Retrieval
Domain based semantic compression for automatic text comprehension augmentation and recommendation
ICCCI'11 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Computational collective intelligence: technologies and applications - Volume Part II
Clustering web search results with maximum spanning trees
AI*IA'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Artificial intelligence around man and beyond
Quantifying the impact of concept recognition on biomedical information retrieval
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Interactive sense feedback for difficult queries
Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Does word sense disambiguation improve information retrieval?
Proceedings of the fourth workshop on Exploiting semantic annotations in information retrieval
A Survey of Automatic Query Expansion in Information Retrieval
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Word sense language model for information retrieval
AIRS'06 Proceedings of the Third Asia conference on Information Retrieval Technology
Sense matrix model and discrete cosine transform
AIRS'04 Proceedings of the 2004 international conference on Asian Information Retrieval Technology
Conceptual indexing based on document content representation
CoLIS'05 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Context: conceptions of Library and Information Sciences
Dynamic refinement of search engines results utilizing the user intervention
Journal of Systems and Software
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
Personalized query expansion in the QIC system
Proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital Libraries
Word sense disambiguation for spam filtering
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
Enhancing meta-portals using dynamic user context personalization techniques
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
The CQC algorithm: cycling in graphs to semantically enrich and enhance a bilingual dictionary
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
Word sense disambiguation improves information retrieval
ACL '12 Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Long Papers - Volume 1
Click patterns: an empirical representation of complex query intents
Proceedings of the 21st ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Artificial Intelligence in Medicine
IJCAI'13 Proceedings of the Twenty-Third international joint conference on Artificial Intelligence
Latent word context model for information retrieval
Information Retrieval
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Lexical ambiguity is a pervasive problem in natural language processing. However, little quantitative information is available about the extent of the problem or about the impact that it has on information retrieval systems. We report on an analysis of lexical ambiguity in information retrieval test collections and on experiments to determine the utility of word meanings for separating relevant from nonrelevant documents. The experiments show that there is considerable ambiguity even in a specialized database. Word senses provide a significant separation between relevant and nonrelevant documents, but several factors contribute to determining whether disambiguation will make an improvement in performance. For example, resolving lexical ambiguity was found to have little impact on retrieval effectiveness for documents that have many words in common with the query. Other uses of word sense disambiguation in an information retrieval context are discussed.