%0 Conference Paper %1 dagan1997similarity %A Dagan, Ido %A Lee, Lillian %A Pereira, Fernando %B In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics %D 1997 %K word-sense-disambiguation similarity %P 56--63 %T Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation %U http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.14.7663&rep=rep1&type=pdf %X We compare four similarity-based estimation methods against back-off and maximum-likelihood estimation methods on a pseudo-word sense disambiguation task in which we controlled for both unigram and bigram frequency. The similarity-based methods perform up to 40% better on this particular task. We also conclude that events that occur only once in the training set have major impact on similarity-based estimates.

@inproceedings{dagan1997similarity, abstract = {We compare four similarity-based estimation methods against back-off and maximum-likelihood estimation methods on a pseudo-word sense disambiguation task in which we controlled for both unigram and bigram frequency. The similarity-based methods perform up to 40% better on this particular task. We also conclude that events that occur only once in the training set have major impact on similarity-based estimates.}, added-at = {2010-07-27T16:53:17.000+0200}, author = {Dagan, Ido and Lee, Lillian and Pereira, Fernando}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/21e89f7e52d7b939b7da66f8bef8ffc96/asalber}, booktitle = {In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics}, interhash = {12469d647af81d46888a7b7e98dbb353}, intrahash = {1e89f7e52d7b939b7da66f8bef8ffc96}, keywords = {word-sense-disambiguation similarity}, pages = {56--63}, timestamp = {2012-06-07T11:09:06.000+0200}, title = {Similarity-Based Methods For Word Sense Disambiguation}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.14.7663&rep=rep1&type=pdf}, year = 1997 }