Word sense disambiguation by semi-supervised learning

  • Authors:
  • Zheng-Yu Niu;Donghong Ji;Chew-Lim Tan;Lingpeng Yang

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore;Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore;Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we propose to use a semi-supervised learning algorithm to deal with word sense disambiguation problem. We evaluated a semi-supervised learning algorithm, local and global consistency algorithm, on widely used benchmark corpus for word sense disambiguation. This algorithm yields encouraging experimental results. It achieves better performance than orthodox supervised learning algorithm, such as kNN, and its performance on monolingual benchmark corpus is comparable to a state of the art bootstrapping algorithm (bilingual bootstrapping) for word sense disambiguation.