Abstract

This paper presents various techniques used in the area of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD). There are a number of techniques such as: Knowledge based approaches, which use the knowledge encoded in Lexical resources; Supervised Machine Leaning methods in which the classifier is made to learn from previously semantically annotated corpus; Unsupervised approaches that form cluster occurrences of words. Then there are also semi supervised approaches which use semi annotated corpus as reference data along with unlabeled data.

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