Noun sense disambiguation with wordnet for software design retrieval

  • Authors:
  • Paulo Gomes;Francisco C. Pereira;Paulo Paiva;Nuno Seco;Paulo Carreiro;José Luís Ferreira;Carlos Bento

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra;Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra

  • Venue:
  • AI'03 Proceedings of the 16th Canadian society for computational studies of intelligence conference on Advances in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Natural language understanding can be used to improve the usability of intelligent Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. For a software designer it can be helpful in two ways: a broad range of natural language terms in the naming of software objects, attributes and methods can be used; and the system is able to understand the meaning of these terms so that it could use them in reasoning mechanisms like information retrieval. But, the problem of word sense disambiguation is an obstacle to the development of computational systems that can fully understand natural language. In order to deal with this problem, this paper presents a word sense disambiguation method and how it is integrated with a CASE tool.