Graded word sense assignment

  • Authors:
  • Katrin Erk;Diana McCarthy

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin;University of Sussex

  • Venue:
  • EMNLP '09 Proceedings of the 2009 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Volume 1 - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Word sense disambiguation is typically phrased as the task of labeling a word in context with the best-fitting sense from a sense inventory such as WordNet. While questions have often been raised over the choice of sense inventory, computational linguists have readily accepted the best-fitting sense methodology despite the fact that the case for discrete sense boundaries is widely disputed by lexical semantics researchers. This paper studies graded word sense assignment, based on a recent dataset of graded word sense annotation.