Using LazyBoosting for Word Sense Disambiguation
Gerard Escudero, Lluı́s Màrquez, Germán Rigau · 2001
This paper describes the architecture and results of the TALP system presented at the SENSEVAL-2 exercise for the English lexical-sample task. This system is based on the LazyBoosting algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation (Escudero et al., 2000), and incorporates some improvements and adaptations to this task. The evaluation reported here includes an analysis of the contribution of each component to the overall system performance. 1 System Description The TALP system has been developed on the basis of LazyBoosting (Escudero et al., 2000), a boosting-based approach for Word Sense Disambiguation. In order to better fit the SENSEVAL-