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Noun Sense Disambiguation with WordNet for Software Design Retrieval

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Advances in Artificial Intelligence (Canadian AI 2003)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNAI,volume 2671))

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Natural language understanding can be used to improve the usability of intelligent Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools. For a software designer it can be helpful in two ways: a broad range of natural language terms in the naming of software objects, attributes and methods can be used; and the system is able to understand the meaning of these terms so that it could use them in reasoning mechanisms like information retrieval. But, the problem of word sense disambiguation is an obstacle to the development of computational systems that can fully understand natural language. In order to deal with this problem, this paper presents a word sense disambiguation method and how it is integrated with a CASE tool.

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  1. Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Polo II, Universidade de Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra

    Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nuno Seco, Paulo Carreiro, José Luís Ferreira & Carlos Bento

  2. CISUC - Centro de Informática e Sistemas da Universidade de Coimbra, 3030, Coimbra

    Paulo Gomes, Francisco C. Pereira, Paulo Paiva, Nuno Seco, Paulo Carreiro, José Luís Ferreira & Carlos Bento

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  1. Department of Computing and Information Science, College of Physical and Engineering Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1

    Yang Xiang

  2. Dépt. Informatique-Génie Logiciel, Université Laval, Pavillon Pouliot, Ste-Foy, PQ, Canada, G1K 7P4

    Brahim Chaib-draa

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Gomes, P. et al. (2003). Noun Sense Disambiguation with WordNet for Software Design Retrieval. In: Xiang, Y., Chaib-draa, B. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence. Canadian AI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2671. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44886-1_47

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