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Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the ability to identify the meaning of words in context in a computational manner. WSD is considered as an AI-complete problem, that is, a task whose solution is at least as hard as the most difficult problems in artificial intelligence. This is basically used in application like information retrieval, machine translation, information extraction because of its semantics understanding. This paper describes the proposed approach (WSD-TIC) which is based on the words surrounding the polysemous word in a context. Each meaning of these words is represented by a vector composed of weighted nouns using taxonomic information content. The main emphasis of this paper is feature selection for disambiguation purpose. The assessment of WSD systems is discussed in the context of the Senseval campaign, aiming at the objective evaluation of our proposal to the systems participating in several different disambiguation tasks.
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JWNL WordNet Java API: http://sourceforge.net/projects/jwordnet.
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Ben Aouicha, M., Hadj Taieb, M.A., Ibn Marai, H. (2016). WSD-TIC: Word Sense Disambiguation Using Taxonomic Information Content. In: Nguyen, NT., Iliadis, L., Manolopoulos, Y., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9875. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_12
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