In this introduction to the special issues, we begin by outlining a concrete example that indicates some of the motivations leading to the widespread use of inheritance networks in computational linguistics.
There are now many computer programs for automatically determining the sense of a word in context (Word Sense Disambiguation or WSD). The purpose of Senseval is to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of such programs with respect to different words, dif
The proposal Algorithms for Linguistic Processing focuses on two crucial problem areas in computational linguistics: problems of processing efficiency and ambiguity.