Abstract:Ambiguity is a common phenomenon in text, especially in the biomedical domain. For instance, it is frequently the case that a gene, a protein encoded by the gene, and a disease associated with the protein share the same name. Resolving this problem, that is, assigning to an ambiguous word in a given context its correct meaning is called word sense disambiguation (WSD). It is a pre-requisite for associating entities in text to external identifiers and thus to put the results from text mining into a larger knowl… Show more
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