Hierarchical Semantic Classification: Word Sense Disambiguation with World Knowledge

Abstract

We present a learning architecture for lexical semantic classification problems that supplements task-specific training data with background data encoding general "world knowledge". The model compiles knowledge contained in a dictionaryontology into additional training data, and integrates task-specific and background data through a novel hierarchical learning architecture. Experiments on a word sense disambiguation task provide empirical evidence that this "hierarchical classifier" outperforms a state-of-the-art standard "flat " one. 1

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Text

Ciaramita et al. "Hierarchical Semantic Classification: Word Sense Disambiguation with World Knowledge." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003.

Markdown

[Ciaramita et al. "Hierarchical Semantic Classification: Word Sense Disambiguation with World Knowledge." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2003.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2003/ciaramita2003ijcai-hierarchical/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{ciaramita2003ijcai-hierarchical,
  title     = {{Hierarchical Semantic Classification: Word Sense Disambiguation with World Knowledge}},
  author    = {Ciaramita, Massimiliano and Hofmann, Thomas and Johnson, Mark},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {2003},
  pages     = {817-822},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/2003/ciaramita2003ijcai-hierarchical/}
}