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A Comparative Study of an Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Approach

A Comparative Study of an Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Approach
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Author(s): Wei Xiong (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Min Song (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)and Lori deVersterre (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)
Copyright: 2012
Pages: 11
Source title: Applied Natural Language Processing: Identification, Investigation and Resolution
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Philip M. McCarthy (The University of Memphis, USA)and Chutima Boonthum-Denecke (Hampton University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60960-741-8.ch024

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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.

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