“…When it comes to the Arabic language, lack of linguistic resources like electronic dictionaries and the absence of standard collections for evaluation (Boudabous et al, 2013;Bounhas, 2012;Bounhas et al, 2011) are the most prominent problem the language suffers from. So, most of the researchers who started to work in WSD for Arabic language adopted knowledge-based approaches using one or more sources of knowledge in developing their disambiguation methods (Alian et al, 2016b;Bouhriz et al, 2016;Hadni et al, 2016;Menai & Alsaeedan, 2012;Pinto et al, 2007;Zouaghi et al, 2011). Some AWSD knowledge-based approaches have exploited several semantic similarity measures that benefitted from WordNet's semantic connections between word senses while other AWSD knowledge-based approaches depend on gloss overlap or, they are in other words, Lesk algorithm-based knowledge-based approaches (Lesk, 1986).…”