Automatic word sense disambiguation for Dutch using dependency information

An automatic word sense disambiguation system utilizing dependency information is implemented using existing language resources for Dutch (Lassy, Alpino, Cornetto) and tested on a subset of DutchSemCor. The disambiguation method used largely follows the method first proposed by Lin (1997). It defines words by their local context, represented as dependency triples. The notion that words occurring in the same local contexts are semantically close to the ambiguous word is used to create a list of similar words. The correct sense is then found by selecting the sense that is semantically closest to... Mehr ...