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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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2016
2016
WordNet-based similarity metrics for adjectives
Le and Fokkens (2015) recently showed that taxonomy-based approaches are more reliable than corpus-based approaches in estimating… 
2012
2012
Evaluating effect of context window size, stemming and stop word removal on Hindi word sense disambiguation
This paper investigates the effects of stemming, stop word removal and size of context window on Hindi word sense disambiguation… 
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… 
2008
2008
Subjects and Scales
The paper is concerned with the realization of subjects in Russian (Ru) as compared with Polish (Po) and Czech (Cz). Non-overt… 
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… 
1982
1982
Responses to oral gland scents from different males in Columbian ground squirrels
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