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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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