UNIGE Experiments on Robust Word Sense Disambiguation
Gilles Falquet, Jacques Guyot, Saïd Radhouani, Karim Benzineb · Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva) · 2008
This task was meant to compare the results of two different retrieval techniques: the first one was based on the words found in documents and query texts; the second one was based on the senses (concepts) obtained by disambiguating the words in documents and queries.The underlying goal was to come up with a more precise knowledge about the possible improvements brought by word sense disambiguation (WSD) in the information retrieval process.The proposed task structure was interesting in that it drew up a clear separation between the actors (humans or computers): those who provide the corpus, those who disambiguate it, and those who query it.Thus it was possible to test the universality and the interoperability of the methods and algorithms involved.