#21968A method of sense resolution is proposed that is based on WordNet, an on-line lexical database that incorporates semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy,causal and troponymic entailment) as labeled pointers between word senses.
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the
<term>
polysemous word
</term>
; a
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large textual corpus
</term>
will then be searched for these derived
#22067Either, (1) words related in meaning 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; alarge 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.
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will be derived by substituting these
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related words
</term>
into the
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context
</term>
of the
#22056Either, (1) words related in meaning to the alternative senses of the polysemous word will be retrieved; new strings will be derived by substituting theserelated 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.
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semantic distance
</term>
from those
<term>
words
</term>
to the
<term>
alternative senses
</term>
#22147Or, (2) the context of the polysemous word will be used as a key to search a large corpus; all words found to occur in that context will be noted; WordNet will then be used to estimate the semantic distance from thosewords 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.