• DOI:10.3115/992133.992140
Corpus ID: 1693468

Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Models of Roget's Categories Trained on Large Corpora

@inproceedings{Yarowsky1992WordSenseDU,
  title={Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Statistical Models of Roget's Categories Trained on Large Corpora},
  author={David Yarowsky},
  booktitle={COLING},
  year={1992}
}

David Yarowsky

Published in COLING 1992

Computer Science

This paper describes a program that disambiguates English word senses in unrestricted text using statistical models of the major Roget's Thesaurus categories. [...] Key Method The selection of categories is accomplished by identifying and weighting words that are indicative of each category when seen in context, using a Bayesian theoretical framework.Other statistical approaches have required special corpora or hand-labeled training examples for much of the lexicon. Our use of class models overcomes this…Expand Abstract

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