WASP-Bench: a lexicographic tool supporting word sense disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • David Tugwell;Adam Kilgarriff

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Brighton, Brighton, UK;University of Brighton, Brighton, UK

  • Venue:
  • SENSEVAL '01 The Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Systems
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

We present WASP-Bench: a novel approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, also providing a semi-automatic environment for a lexicographer to compose dictionary entries based on corpus evidence. For WSD, involving lexicographers tackles the twin obstacles to high accuracy: paucity of training data and insufficiently explicit dictionaries. For lexicographers, the computational environment fills the need for a corpus workbench which supports WSD. Results under simulated lexicographic use on the English lexical-sample task show precision comparable with supervised systems, without using the laboriously-prepared training data.