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Compound Noun Polysemy and Sense Enumeration in WordNet

Authors:
Abed Alhakim Freihat
Biswanath Dutta
Fausto Giunchiglia

Keywords: Polysemy, wordNet, compound nouns, sense enumeration

Abstract:
Sense enumeration in WordNet is one of the main reasons behind the problem of high polysemous nature of WordNet. The sense enumeration refers to misconstruction that results in wrong assigning of a synset to a term. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to discover and solve the problem of sense enumerations in compound noun polysemy in WordNet. The proposed solution reduces the number of sense enumerations in WordNet and thus its high polysemous nature without affecting its efficiency as a lexical resource for natural language processing.

Pages: 166 to 171

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2015

Publication date: February 22, 2015

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4375

ISBN: 978-1-61208-386-5

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from February 22, 2015 to February 27, 2015