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A Perspective on Word Sense Disambiguation Methods and Their Evaluation

Philip Resnik
Dept. of Linguistics/UMIACS University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
resnik@umiacs.umd.edu
David Yarowsky
Dept. of Computer Science/CLSP Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD 21218
yarowsky@cs.jhu.edu

Abstract In this position paper, we make several observations about the state of the art in automatic word sense disambiguation. Motivated by these observations, we offer several specific proposals to the community regarding improved evaluation criteria, common training and testing resources, and the definition of sense inventories.

1 Introduction