by Michael Lesk
Abstract:
The meaning of an English word can vary widely depending on which sense is intended. Does a fireman feed fires or put them out? It depends on whether or not he is on a steam locomotive. I am trying to decide automatically which sense of a word is intended (in written English) by using machine readable dictionaries, and looking for words in the sense definitions that overlap words in the definition of nearby words.
Reference:
Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries (Michael Lesk), In Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation - SIGDOC '86, ACM Press, 1986.
Bibtex Entry:
@inproceedings{Lesk1986,
abstract = {The meaning of an English word can vary widely depending on which sense is intended. Does a fireman feed fires or put them out? It depends on whether or not he is on a steam locomotive. I am trying to decide automatically which sense of a word is intended (in written English) by using machine readable dictionaries, and looking for words in the sense definitions that overlap words in the definition of nearby words.},
address = {New York, USA},
author = {Lesk, Michael},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation - SIGDOC '86},
doi = {10.1145/318723.318728},
isbn = {0897912241},
keywords = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,distributional measures,semantic relatedness,word-sense-disambiguation},
mendeley-tags = {SML-LIB-BIBLIO,distributional measures,semantic relatedness,word-sense-disambiguation},
month = jun,
pages = {24--26},
publisher = {ACM Press},
title = {{Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries}},
url = {http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=318723.318728},
year = {1986}
}