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Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Tools for Information Retrieval Task

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Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access (CLEF 2008)

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The main interest of this paper is the characterization of queries where WSD is a useful tool. That is, which issues must be fulfilled by a query in order to apply an state-of-art WSD tool? In addition, we have evaluated several approaches in order to apply WSD. We have used several types of indices. Thus, we have generated 13 indices and we have carried out 39 different experiments, obtaining that some indices based on WSD tools even outperforms slightly the non disambiguated baseline case. After the interpretation of our experiments, we think that only queries with terms very polysemous and very high IDF value are improved by using WSD.

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  1. SINAI Research Group, Computer Science Department, University of Jaén, Spain

    Fernando Martínez-Santiago, José M. Perea-Ortega & Miguel A. García-Cumbreras

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  1. Fernando Martínez-Santiago
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  1. Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Carol Peters

  2. RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Thomas Deselaers

  3. University of Padua, Padua, Italy

    Nicola Ferro

  4. LSI-UNED, Madrid, Spain

    Julio Gonzalo  & Anselmo Peñas  & 

  5. Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Gareth J. F. Jones

  6. Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland

    Mikko Kurimo

  7. University of Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany

    Thomas Mandl

  8. Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

    Vivien Petras

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Martínez-Santiago, F., Perea-Ortega, J.M., García-Cumbreras, M.A. (2009). Evaluating Word Sense Disambiguation Tools for Information Retrieval Task. In: Peters, C., et al. Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access. CLEF 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5706. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04447-2_13

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