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ROMANSEVAL: Results for Italian by SENSE

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The paper describes SENSE, a word sense disambiguation system thatmakes use of different types of cues to infer the most likelysense of a word given its context. Architecture and functioning ofthe system are briefly illustrated. Results are given for theROMANSEVAL Italian test corpus of verbs.

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  1. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale – CNR, Viadella Faggiola 32, Pisa, Italy

    Stefano Federici & Simonetta Montemagni

  2. Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale – CNR, Viadella Faggiola 32, Pisa, Italy

    Vito Pirrelli

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Federici, S., Montemagni, S. & Pirrelli, V. ROMANSEVAL: Results for Italian by SENSE. Computers and the Humanities 34, 199–204 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1002454919194

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