Word-sense inductionIn computational linguistics, word-sense induction (WSI) or discrimination is an open problem of natural language processing, which concerns the automatic identification of the senses of a word (i.e. meanings). Given that the output of word-sense induction is a set of senses for the target word (sense inventory), this task is strictly related to that of word-sense disambiguation (WSD), which relies on a predefined sense inventory and aims to solve the ambiguity of words in context.
Désambiguïsation lexicaleLa désambiguïsation lexicale ou désambigüisation lexicale est la détermination du sens d'un mot dans une phrase lorsque ce mot peut avoir plusieurs sens possibles. Dans la linguistique informatique, la désambiguïsation lexicale est un problème non résolu dans le traitement des langues naturelles et de l'ontologie informatique. La résolution de ce problème permettrait des avancées importantes dans d'autres champs de la linguistique informatique comme l'analyse du discours, l'amélioration de la pertinence des résultats des moteurs de recherche, la résolution des anaphores, la cohérence, l'inférence, etc.
Word senseIn linguistics, a word sense is one of the meanings of a word. For example, a dictionary may have over 50 different senses of the word "play", each of these having a different meaning based on the context of the word's usage in a sentence, as follows: We went to see the play Romeo and Juliet at the theater. The coach devised a great play that put the visiting team on the defensive. The children went out to play in the park. In each sentence different collocates of "play" signal its different meanings.
