Word Sense Disambiguation FSNLP , chapter 7
The task is to determine which of various senses of a word are invoked in context: the seed companies cut off the tassels of each plant, making it male sterile Nissan’s Tennessee manufacturing plant beat back a United Auto Workers organizing effort with aggressive tactics This is an important problem: Most words are ambiguous (have multiple senses) Converse: words or senses that mean (almost) the same: image, likeness, portrait, facsimile, picture