1995 UnsupWSDRivalingSupervMethods

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Subject Headings: Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm, Word Sense Disambiguation Algorithm, Yarowsky Algorithm.

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Abstract

This paper presents an unsupervised learning algorithm for sense disambiguation that, when trained on unannotated English text, rivals the performance of supervised techniques that require time-consuming hand annotations. The algorithm is based on two powerful constraints --- that words tend to have one sense per discourse and one sense per collocation --- exploited in an iterative bootstrapping procedure. Tested accuracy exceeds 96%.


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 AuthorvolumeDate ValuetitletypejournaltitleUrldoinoteyear
1995 UnsupWSDRivalingSupervMethodsDavid YarowskyUnsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised MethodsProceedings of the 33rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguisticshttp://acl.ldc.upenn.edu//P/P95/P95-1026.pdf10.3115/981658.9816841995