Significance of Syntactic Features for Word Sense Disambiguation

Using semantic techniques to access web data

“…However, the complexity of the disambiguation process increases when the number of words available as context is low, as in this case where the context is the list of plain user keywords and their possible meanings. Indeed, user queries in keyword-based search engines normally have a length lower than five words, so techniques that rely on the syntax of whole sentences [20,21] or the collocation of words [22,23] cannot be fully exploited.…”