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 1992 in COLING

This paper describes a program that disambignates English word senses in unrestricted text using statistical models of the major Roget's Thesaurus categories. Roget's categories serve as approximations of conceptual classes. The categories listed for a word in Roger's index tend to correspond to sense distinctions; thus selecting the most likely category provides a useful level of sense disambiguatiou. The selection of categories is accomplished by identifying and weighting words that are… CONTINUE READING

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