Lexical, Syntactic, and Referencial Disambiguation Using a Semantic Network Dictionary
Alexander F. Gelbukh · 1997
A procedure is proposed for determining the measure of “nearness” of two words in a semantic network dictionary. Applications of this procedure are discussed in detail for lexical, syntactical, and referential disambiguation in natural language analysis, as well as in machine translation. A simplified version of the same procedure is used for automatic translation of the semantic network itself into other languages. This simplifies creation and maintenance of semantic network dictionaries for different languages, and thus makes the described methods available for processing of texts in languages other than English.