Sometime this summer I wrote on the senseval discussion list that I thought there was still a place for black box disambiguation, and that "all words" disambiguation was what users probably really wanted.
One may debate both of those point, but I'm happy to report that we have a nice little black box to offer the world, just in time for the new year. :) BTW, a black box word sense disambiguation system means you can plug any text into it and you can get back results without having to tune or adjust anything. There are some who argue that this isn't really useful, since sense inventories change from application to application, and so do the granularities of sense distinctions. I think that's all true, but I also think it's nice just to be able to assign some set of senses to words without having to go through all the pain and anguish of selecting a sense inventory, etc. etc. Anyway, read on. --------------- We are very pleased to announce the release of WordNet::SenseRelate (version 0.01). This is an "all words" word sense disambiguation algorithm that assigns a meaning to every content word in a text (where those words must be known to WordNet). You can download WordNet::SenseRelate from Sourceforge or CPAN: https://sourceforge.net/projects/senserelate/ http://search.cpan.org/dist/WordNet-SenseRelate WordNet::SenseRelate is based on WordNet::Similarity in that it carries out word sense disambiguation by assigning a word the sense that is most related to those of its neighbors. You may use any of the measures supported in WordNet::Similarity to carry out disambiguation, and you can vary the size of the window in which you are comparing a word to its neighbors. It will also accept input that is in plain text form, or part of speech tagged following the format of the Brill Tagger. The package is still very much under development, so your comments and questions are particularly important right now. We have several mailing lists to which you can subscribe. The developers list is for very technical implementation based questions, the users lists is for any user related issues, and the news list is for announcements from us. You can subscribe to any (or all) of these lists by visiting the following: http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/senserelate-users http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/senserelate-news http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/senserelate-developers We hope you find this useful, and we look forward to any comments or questions you might have! Cordially, Ted and Jason -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse _______________________________________________ Senseval-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.hum.gu.se/mailman/listinfo/senseval-discuss ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Make a clean sweep of pop-up ads. Yahoo! Companion Toolbar. Now with Pop-Up Blocker. Get it for free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/L5YrjA/eSIIAA/yQLSAA/x3XolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nlpatumd/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
