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The grammar of sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1998

YORICK WILKS  and
MARK STEVENSON
YORICK WILKS
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK; e-mail: {yorick,marks}@dcs.shef.ac.uk
MARK STEVENSON
Affiliation:
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield S1 4DP, UK; e-mail: {yorick,marks}@dcs.shef.ac.uk
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Abstract

This paper describes two experiments: one exploring the amount of information relevant to sense disambiguation contained in the part-of-speech field of entries in a Machine Readable Dictionary (MRD); the other, more practical, experiment attempts sense disambiguation of all content words in a text assigning MRD homographs as sense tags using only part-of-speech information. We have implemented a simple sense tagger which successfully tags 94% of words using this method. A plan to extend this work and implement an improved sense tagger is included.

Type
Research Article
Information
Natural Language Engineering , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1998 , pp. 135 - 143
Copyright
© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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