Abstract
Word sense disambiguation is the problem of selecting a sense for a word from a set of predefined possibilities. This is a significant problem in the biomedical domain where a single word may be used to describe a gene, protein, or abbreviation. In this paper, we evaluate SENSATIONAL, a novel unsupervised WSD technique, in comparison with two popular learning algorithms: support vector machines (SVM) and K-means. Based on the accuracy measure, our results show that SENSATIONAL outperforms SVM and K-means by 2% and 17%, respectively. In addition, we develop a polysemy-based search engine and an experimental visualization application that utilizes SENSATIONAL's clustering technique.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Applied Natural Language Processing |
| Subtitle of host publication | Identification, Investigation and Resolution |
| Publisher | IGI Global |
| Pages | 412-422 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781609607418 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computer Science(all)
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Xiong, W., Song, M., & deDeversterre, L. W. (2011). A comparative study of an unsupervised word sense disambiguation approach. In Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution (pp. 412-422). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8.ch024