A Quantitative Analysis of Using Part-of-speech for Distinguishing Word Sense
Lijiao Yang · Journal of Yunnan Normal University · 2010
This study aims to conduct a quantitative analysis of using part-of-speech attributes of a word to distinguish word sense in the process of word sense disambiguation.This is a case study of Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (fifth edition) in which the words are attached POS tags,and each POS of a word is defined with a separate sense which means that polysemous words with several POS attributes have the same meanings in the dictionary.This feature contributes greatly to word sense disambiguation.The paper firstly analyses the effect of using POS to distinguish word sense and morpheme.Next,the paper analyses the proportion of conversion words and polysemants in both the dictionary and the corpora.Finally,the paper gives the probability on reducing the complexity of distinguishing word sense in the corpora.