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Lesk algorithm

Known as: Lesk 
The Lesk algorithm is a classical algorithm for word sense disambiguation introduced by Michael E. Lesk in 1986.
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2011
2011
Use of Ontologies for Data Integration and Curation
Data curation includes the goal of facilitating the re-use and combination of datasets, which is often impeded by incompatible… 
2009
2009
Comparing Similarity Measures for Original WSD Lesk Algorithm
| @ | gmail.com, www.gelbukh.com Abstract. There are many similarity measures to determine the similarity relatedness between two… 
2008
2008
MRD-based Word Sense Disambiguation: Further Extending Lesk
This paper reconsiders the task of MRDbased word sense disambiguation, in extending the basic Lesk algorithm to investigate the… 
Review
2005
Review
2005
Review of: Lesk, Michael. Understanding digital libraries. 2nd. ed.. San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2004
2004
2004
Word sense disambiguation using WordNet and the Lesk algorithm
Word sense disambiguation is the process of automatically clarifying the meaning of a word in its context. It has drawn much… 
2004
2004
Performance Evaluation of WordNet-based Semantic Relatedness Measures for Word Prediction in Conversational Speech
The recognition of conversational speech is a hard problem. Semantic relatedness measures can improve speech recognition… 
Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
Topic-based Vector Space Model
This paper motivates and presents the Topic-based Vector Space Model (TVSM), a new vector-based approach for document comparison… 
1996
1996
Event-Predicate Detection in the Debugging of Distributed Applications
Trends in the development of computer hardware are making the use of distributed systems increasingly attractive. The collection… 
1987
1987
Formalization of operations and function definitions in a functional programming language for data structures
This paper presents a method for formalization of operations on certain class of syntactically represented linked Data Structures… 
1982
1982
Responses to oral gland scents from different males in Columbian ground squirrels
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