Abstract:
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This paper presents a method for the resolution of lexical ambiguity and its
automatic evaluation over the Brown Corpus. The method relies on the use of
the wide-coverage noun taxonomy of WordNet and the notion of conceptual
distance among concepts, captured by a Conceptual Density formula developed
for this purpose. This fully automatic method requires no hand coding of
lexical entries, hand tagging of text nor any kind of training process. The
results of the experiment have been automatically evaluated against SemCor,
the sense-tagged version of the Brown Corpus. |