#21949A 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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between
<term>
word senses
</term>
. With
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WordNet
</term>
, it is easy to retrieve sets of
#21981With WordNet , 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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context
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will be noted ;
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WordNet
</term>
will then be used to estimate the
#22135Or, (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 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.