Greetings all, Varada turned in the final version of her Master's thesis today - it represents our most extensive evaluation of all words sense disambiguation to date, and I think makes quite a few significant points and raises some interesting new directions for future work. Please check it out and let us know of any comments or questions you might have!
An Extended Analysis of a Method of All Words Sense Disambiguation (Kolhatkar) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2009. http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse/Pubs/varada-thesis.pdf While it doesn't garner too much attention in the MS thesis, users of SenseRelate should remember that before Varada's work we had no web interface for AllWords - based on the number of hits we get on the site (between 1000 - 5000 most months) it's very clearly been a big success, and I know has been a considerable help to me as I try to better understand when this algorithm works and when it doesn't... http://talisker.d.umn.edu/allwords/allwords.html While graduation ceremonies and oral defenses are all significant events, it is of course the submission of the final version of the MS thesis that truly marks the end of a students time here at UMD. Varada has reached that stage, and will move on very soon to the PhD program at the University of Toronto, where I'm sure she'll continue to do wonderful work. For our part, we will do our best to build upon Varada's efforts with WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords, so please do let us know of any questions, concerns, or suggestions you might have now or in the future. Enjoy, Ted -- Ted Pedersen http://www.d.umn.edu/~tpederse
