Title
WASPBENCH: a lexicographer's workbench incorporating state-of-the-art word sense disambiguation
Abstract
Human Language Technologies (HLT) need dictionaries, to tell them what words mean and how they behave. People making dictionaries (lexicographers) need HLT, to help them identify how words behave so they can make better dictionaries. Thus a potential for synergy exists across the range of lexical data - in the construction of headword lists, for spelling correction, phonetics, morphology and syntax, but nowhere more than for semantics, and in particular the vexed question of how a word's meaning should be analysed into distinct senses. HLT needs all the help it can get from dictionaries, because it is a very hard problem to identify which meaning of a word applies. Lexicographers need all the help they can get because the analysis of meaning is the second hardest part of their job (Kilgarriff, 1998), it occupies a large share of their working hours, and it is one where, currently, they have very little to go on beyond intuition and other dictionaries.
Year
Venue
DocType
2003
EACL
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
1
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adam Kilgarriff11173137.16
Roger Evans234455.12
Rob Koeling343438.38
David Tugwell4224.11
David Tugwell500.34