Rapid Bootstrapping of Word Sense Disambiguation Resources for German
Samuel Broscheit, Anette Frank, Dominic Jehle, Simone Paolo Ponzetto, Danny Rehl, Anja Summa, Klaus Suttner, Saskia Vola · MADOC (University of Mannheim) · 2010
This paper presents ongoing efforts on developing Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) resources for the German language, using GermaNet as a basis. We bootstrap two WSD systems for German. (i) We enrich GermaNet with predominant sense information, following previous unsupervised methods to acquire predominant senses of words. The acquired predominant sense information is used as a type-based first sense heuristics for token-level WSD. (ii) As an alternative, we adapt a state-of-theart knowledge-based WSD system to the GermaNet lexical resource. We finally investigate the hypothesis of whether the two systems are complementary by combining their output within a voting architecture. The results show that we are able to bootstrap two robust baseline systems for word sense annotation of German words.