%0 Conference Paper %1 Pedersen:2001:DTB:1073336.1073347 %A Pedersen, Ted %B Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language Technologies %C Stroudsburg, PA, USA %D 2001 %I Association for Computational Linguistics %K test %P 1--8 %R 10.3115/1073336.1073347 %T A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense %U http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1073336.1073347 %X This paper presents a corpus-based approach to word sense disambiguation where a decision tree assigns a sense to an ambiguous word based on the bigrams that occur nearby. This approach is evaluated using the sense-tagged corpora from the 1998 SENSEVAL word sense disambiguation exercise. It is more accurate than the average results reported for 30 of 36 words, and is more accurate than the best results for 19 of 36 words.

@inproceedings{Pedersen:2001:DTB:1073336.1073347, abstract = {This paper presents a corpus-based approach to word sense disambiguation where a decision tree assigns a sense to an ambiguous word based on the bigrams that occur nearby. This approach is evaluated using the sense-tagged corpora from the 1998 SENSEVAL word sense disambiguation exercise. It is more accurate than the average results reported for 30 of 36 words, and is more accurate than the best results for 19 of 36 words.}, acmid = {1073347}, added-at = {2015-01-21T14:17:14.000+0100}, address = {Stroudsburg, PA, USA}, author = {Pedersen, Ted}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/27b47eedad860d4b9f771266b5cb5ee19/clemensbaier}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Language Technologies}, description = {A decision tree of bigrams is an accurate predictor of word sense}, doi = {10.3115/1073336.1073347}, interhash = {b9322816c268562bf54c6d00e393d4e2}, intrahash = {7b47eedad860d4b9f771266b5cb5ee19}, keywords = {test}, location = {Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania}, numpages = {8}, pages = {1--8}, publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics}, series = {NAACL '01}, timestamp = {2015-01-21T14:17:14.000+0100}, title = {A Decision Tree of Bigrams is an Accurate Predictor of Word Sense}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3115/1073336.1073347}, year = 2001 }