#21981WithWordNet, it is easy to retrieve sets of semantically related words, a facility that will be used for sense resolution during text processing, as follows.
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When a
<term>
word
</term>
with multiple
<term>
senses
</term>
is encountered , one of two procedures
#22015When a word with multiplesenses is encountered, one of two procedures will be followed.
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search a
<term>
large corpus
</term>
; all
<term>
words
</term>
found to occur in that
<term>
context
#22124Or, (2) the context of the polysemous word will be used as a key to search a large corpus; allwords found to occur in that context will be noted; WordNet will then be used to estimate the semantic distance from those words to the alternative senses of the polysemous word; and that sense will be chosen that is closest in meaning to other words occurring in the same context.
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( 1 )
<term>
words
</term>
related in
<term>
meaning
</term>
to the
<term>
alternative senses
</term>
#22035Either, (1) words related inmeaning to the alternative senses of the polysemous word will be retrieved; new strings will be derived by substituting these related words into the context of the polysemous word; a large textual corpus will then be searched for these derived strings; and that sense will be chosen that corresponds to the derived string that is found most often in the corpus.