WASP-Bench: a Lexicographic Tool Supporting Word Sense Disambiguation
David Tugwell, Adam Kilgarriff · 2001
We present WASP-Bench: a novel approach to Word Sense Disambiguation, also providing a semi-automatic environment for a lexicographer to compose dictionary entries based on corpus evidence. For WSD, involving lexicographers tackles the twin obstacles to high accuracy: paucity of training data and insufficiently explicit dictionaries. For lexicographers, the computational environment fills the need for a corpus workbench which supports WSD. Results under simulated lexicographic use on the English lexical-sample task show precision comparable with supervised systems 1, without using the laboriously-prepared training data. 1