Crowdsourcing Word Sense Definition
Anna Rumshisky · 2012
In this paper, we propose a crowdsourcing methodology for a single-step construction of both an empirically-derived sense inventory and the corresponding sense-annotated corpus. The methodology taps the intuitions of non-expert native speakers to create an expertquality resource, and natively lends itself to supplementing such a resource with additional information about the structure and reliability of the produced sense inventories. The resulting resource will provide several ways to empirically measure distances between related word senses, and will explicitly address the question of fuzzy boundaries between them. 1