Word sense induction by community detection

  • Authors:
  • David Jurgens

  • Affiliations:
  • HRL Laboratories, LLC, Malibu, California and University of California, Los Angeles

  • Venue:
  • TextGraphs-6 Proceedings of TextGraphs-6: Graph-based Methods for Natural Language Processing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Word Sense Induction (WSI) is an unsupervised approach for learning the multiple senses of a word. Graph-based approaches to WSI frequently represent word co-occurrence as a graph and use the statistical properties of the graph to identify the senses. We reinterpret graph-based WSI as community detection, a well studied problem in network science. The relations in the co-occurrence graph give rise to word communities, which distinguish senses. Our results show competitive performance on the SemEval-2010 WSI Task.