Discovering word senses from a network of lexical cooccurrences
Olivier Ferret · 2004
Lexico-semantic networks such as WordNet have been criticized about the nature of the senses they distinguish as well as on the way they define these senses.In this article, we present a possible solution to overcome these limits by defining the sense of words from the way they are used.More precisely, we propose to differentiate the senses of a word from a network of lexical cooccurrences built from a large corpus.This method was tested both for French and English and was evaluated for English by comparing its results with WordNet.