Inferring semantic similarity from distributional evidence: an analogy-based approach to word sense disambiguation
Stefano Federici, Simonetta Montemagni⋄, Vito Pirrelli · UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari) · 1997
The paper describes an analogy-based measure of word-sense proximity grounded on distributional evidence in typical contexts, and illustrates a computational system which makes use of this measure for purposes of lexical disambiguation. Experimental results show that word sense-analogy based on contexts of use compares favourably with classical word-sense similarity defined in terms of thesaural proximity.