Simple features for Chinese word sense disambiguation

  • Authors:
  • Hoa Trang Dang;Ching-yi Chia;Martha Palmer;Fu-Dong Chiou

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania;University of Pennsylvania;University of Pennsylvania;University of Pennsylvania

  • Venue:
  • COLING '02 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

In this paper we report on our experiments on automatic Word Sense Disambiguation using a maximum entropy approach for both English and Chinese verbs. We compare the difficulty of the sense-tagging tasks in the two languages and investigate the types of contextual features that are useful for each language. Our experimental results suggest that while richer linguistic features are useful for English WSD, they may not be as beneficial for Chinese.