Selecting the "Right" number of senses based on clustering criterion functions

Ted Pedersen, Anagha Kulkarni

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Abstract

This paper describes an unsupervised knowledge-lean methodology for automatically determining the number of senses in which an ambiguous word is used in a large corpus. It is based on the use of global criterion functions that assess the quality of a clustering solution.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages111-114
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)1932432590, 9781932432596
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Event11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2006 - Trento, Italy
Duration: Apr 3 2006Apr 7 2006

Publication series

NameEACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

Other

Other11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2006
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTrento
Period4/3/064/7/06

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