An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Using WordNet

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by Satanjeev Banerjee, Ted Pedersen
Abstract:
This paper presents an adaptation of Lesk’s dictionarybased word sense disambiguation algorithm. Rather than using a standard dictionary as the source of glosses for our approach, the lexical database WordNet is employed. This provides a rich hierarchy of semantic relations that our algorithm can exploit. This method is evaluated using the English lexical sample data from the Senseval-2 word sense disambiguation exercise, and attains an overall accuracy of 32\%. This represents a significant improvement over the 16\% and 23\% accuracy attained by variations of the Lesk algorithm used as benchmarks during the SENSEVAL-2 comparative exercise among word sense disambiguation systems.
Reference:
An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Using WordNet (Satanjeev Banerjee, Ted Pedersen), Chapter in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing (Alexander Gelbukh, ed.), Springer Berlin Heidelberg, volume 2276, 2002.
Bibtex Entry:
@incollection{Banerjee2002,
abstract = {This paper presents an adaptation of Lesk’s dictionarybased word sense disambiguation algorithm. Rather than using a standard dictionary as the source of glosses for our approach, the lexical database WordNet is employed. This provides a rich hierarchy of semantic relations that our algorithm can exploit. This method is evaluated using the English lexical sample data from the Senseval-2 word sense disambiguation exercise, and attains an overall accuracy of 32\%. This represents a significant improvement over the 16\% and 23\% accuracy attained by variations of the Lesk algorithm used as benchmarks during the SENSEVAL-2 comparative exercise among word sense disambiguation systems.},
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author = {Banerjee, Satanjeev and Pedersen, Ted},
booktitle = {Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing},
doi = {10.1007/3-540-45715-1\_11},
editor = {Gelbukh, Alexander},
isbn = {978-3-540-43219-7},
keywords = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
mendeley-tags = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,lang:ENG},
month = feb,
pages = {136--145},
publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
title = {{An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation Using WordNet}},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45715-1\_11},
volume = {2276},
year = {2002}
}
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