New Perspectives on Computational and Cognitive Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation Springerbriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering

__Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation__ examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel. Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources resemble the mental lexicon as far as the concreteness distinction is concerned. The text also investigates the contribution of different knowledge sources to WSD in relation to this very intrinsic nature of words and senses. "Cognitive and Computational Strategies for Word Sense Disambiguation examines cognitive strategies by humans and computational strategies by machines, for WSD in parallel. Focusing on a psychologically valid property of words and senses, author Oi Yee Kwong discusses their concreteness or abstractness and draws on psycholinguistic data to examine the extent to which existing lexical resources resemble the mental lexicon as far as the concreteness distinction is concerned. The text also investigates the contribution of different knowledge sources to WSD in relation to this very intrinsic nature of words and senses"--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Word Senses and Problem Definition....Pages 1-13 Methods for Automatic WSD....Pages 15-36 Lessons Learned from Evaluation....Pages 37-51 The Psychology of WSD....Pages 53-64 Sense Concreteness and Lexical Activation....Pages 65-82 Lexical Sensitivity of WSD: An Outlook....Pages 83-93 Back Matter....Pages 95-105 Oi Yee Kwong. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 95-105).