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A New Approach to Pseudoword Generation

OTRUSINA, L. SMRŽ, P.

Original Title

A New Approach to Pseudoword Generation

Type

article in a collection out of WoS and Scopus

Language

English

Original Abstract

Sense-tagged corpora are used to evaluate word sense disambiguation (WSD)systems. Manual creation of such resources is often prohibitively expensive.That is why the concept of pseudowords - conflations of two or moreunambiguous words - has been integrated into WSD evaluation experiments. Thispaper presents a new method of pseudoword generation which takes into accountsemantic-relatedness of the candidate words forming parts of the pseudowords tothe particular senses of the word to be disambiguated. We compare the newapproach to its alternatives and show that the results on pseudowords, that aremore similar to real ambiguous words, better correspond to the actual results.Two techniques assessing the similarity are studied - the first one takesadvantage of manually created dictionaries (wordnets), the second one builds onthe automatically computed statistical data obtained from large corpora. Prosand cons of the two techniques are discussed and the results on a  standard taskare demonstrated.

Keywords

pseudo-words, word sense disambiguation, evaluation, SVM

Authors

OTRUSINA, L.; SMRŽ, P.

RIV year

2010

Released

6. 4. 2010

Publisher

European Language Resources Association

Location

Valletta

ISBN

2-9517408-6-7

Book

Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)

Pages from

1

Pages to

5

Pages count

5

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT35423,
  author="Lubomír {Otrusina} and Pavel {Smrž}",
  title="A New Approach to Pseudoword Generation",
  booktitle="Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)",
  year="2010",
  pages="1--5",
  publisher="European Language Resources Association",
  address="Valletta",
  isbn="2-9517408-6-7"
}