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The Need for Application-Dependent WSD Strategies: A Case Study in MT

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Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language (PROPOR 2006)

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It is generally agreed that the ultimate goal of research into Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is to provide a technology which can benefit applications; however, most of the work in this area has focused on the development of application-independent models. Taking Machine Translation as the application, we argue that this strategy is not appropriate, since many aspects of algorithm design, such as the sense repository, depend on the application. We present evidence for this by investigating the disambiguation of nine verbs in English-Portuguese translations.

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  1. ICMC – University of São Paulo, Av. do Trabalhador São-Carlense, 400, São Carlos, 13560-970, Brazil

    Lucia Specia & Maria das GraçasVolpe Nunes

  2. DL – Pontificial Catholic University, Rio, R. Marquês de São Vicente 225 – Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 22453-900, Brazil

    Gabriela Castelo Branco Ribeiro

  3. Regent Court, DCS – University of Sheffield, 211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, S1 4DP, UK

    Mark Stevenson

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  3. Maria das GraçasVolpe Nunes
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  1. Pontifícia Universidade do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brasil

    Renata Vieira

  2. Departamento de Informática, Universidade de Évora, Portugal

    Paulo Quaresma

  3. NILC-ICMC, University of São Paulo, CP 668P, 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

    Maria das Graças Volpe Nunes

  4. L2F/INESC-ID Lisboa, Email: qa-clef@l2f.inesc-id.pt, Rua Alves Redol, 9, 1000-029, Lisboa, Portugal

    Nuno J. Mamede

  5. Instituto Militar de Engenharia, Praça General Tibúrcio, 80, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cláudia Oliveira

  6. Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Maria Carmelita Dias

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Specia, L., Ribeiro, G.C.B., Nunes, M.d.G., Stevenson, M. (2006). The Need for Application-Dependent WSD Strategies: A Case Study in MT. In: Vieira, R., Quaresma, P., Nunes, M.d.G.V., Mamede, N.J., Oliveira, C., Dias, M.C. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3960. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751984_29

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