English Senseval: Report and Results

There are now many computer programs for automatically determining which sense a word is being used in, and which words, or varieties of language, presented particular problems to which programs.

Abstract

There are now many computer programs for automatically determining which sense a word is being used in. One would like to be able to say which were better, which worse, and also which words, or varieties of language, presented particular problems to which programs. In 1998 a first evaluation exercise, Senseval, took place. The English component of the exercise is described, and results presented. 1 Introduction There are now many computer programs for automatically determining which sense a word is being used in. One would like to be able to say which were better, which worse, and also which words, or varieties of language, presented particular problems to which programs. To this end, an evaluation exercise, Senseval, was organised under the auspices of ACL SIGLEX (the Lexicons Special Interest Group of the Association for Computational Linguistics), EURALEX (European Association for Lexicography) , ELSNET, and EU Projects SPARKLE and ECRAN). It comprised word sense disambiguation (W...