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A Contrastive Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems for Finnish (2019)
Robertson, F. (2019). A Contrastive Evaluation of Word Sense Disambiguation Systems for Finnish. In T. A. Pirinen, H.-J. Kaalep, & F. M. T. Tyers (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (pp. 42-54). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-0304
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All authors or editors: Robertson, Frankie
Parent publication: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages
Parent publication editors: Pirinen, Tommi A.; Kaalep, Heiki-Jaan; Tyers, Francis M. Tyers
Place and date of conference: Tartu, Estonia, 7.-8.9.2019
eISBN: 978-1-948087-92-6
Publication year: 2019
Pages range: 42-54
Number of pages in the book: 207
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication country: United States
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-0304
Publication open access: Openly available
Publication channel open access: Open Access channel
Publication is parallel published (JYX): https://jyx.jyu.fi/handle/123456789/74583
Abstract
Previous work in Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD), like many tasks in natural language processing, has been predominantly focused on English. While there has been some work on other languages, including Uralic languages, up until this point no work has been published providing a contrastive evaluation of WSD for Finnish, despite the requisite lexical resources, most notably FinnWord-Net, having long been in place. This work rectifies the situation. It gives results for systems representing the major approaches to WSD, including some of the systems which have performed best at the task for English. It is hoped these results can act as a baseline for future systems, including both multilingual systems and systems specifically targeting Finnish, as well as point to directions for other Uralic languages.
Keywords: languages; Uralic languages; Finnish language; natural language; glossaries; computational linguistics
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