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EPSRC Reference: GR/M54971/01
Title: A SEMI-AUTOMATIC LEXICOGRAPHER'S WORKBENCH FOR WRITING WORD SENSE PROFILES(WASP)
Principal Investigator: Evans, Dr R
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Department: Information Technology Research Inst
Organisation: University of Brighton
Scheme: Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts: 01 June 1999 Ends: 31 July 2002 Value (£): 287,207
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:
Human Communication in ICT
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Creative Industries No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a major problem faced by many language engineering systems. Much progress has been made recently, but there remains an uncomfortable gap between the senses to be disambiguated, as defined in a dictionary, and the uses of those senses in WSD. WSD work, almost without exception, takes a sense inventory as a given, even though it is now widely acknowledged that a suitable sense inventories differ from task to task.Meanwhile, recent work in linguistics and lexicography leads towards explicit, detailed, corpus-based descriptions of the various ways in which words are used. A number of tools for this work are now available.The proposed research brings the two trends together, exploring WSD algorithms and other data-driven techniques for lexical acquisition and providing a software environment in which a human lexicographer has the power of the automatic procedures at their disposal for identifying and defining word senses, with the output being both human-readable characteristics of the word senses, and the data required for accurate word sense disambiguation. The ideas will be tested through using the software to produce a substantial sample of the English lexicon.
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