Word Sense Disambiguation of Persian Homographs

F. Jani, A.H. Pilevar

2012

Abstract

This paper seeks to elaborate on the disambiguation of Persian words with the same written form but different senses using a combination of supervised and unsupervised method which is conducted by means of thesaurus and corpus. The present method is based on a previously proposed one with several differences. These differences include the use of texts which have been collected by supervised or unsupervised method. In addition, the words of the input corpus were stemmed, and in the case of those words whose different senses have different roles in the sentence, the role of the word in the input sentence was considered for disambiguation. Applying this method to the selected ambiguous words from “Hamshahri”, which is a standard Persian corpus, we achieved to a satisfactory accuracy of 97 percent in the results, and evaluated the presented method as a better and more efficient in comparison with the similar methods.

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Jani F. and Pilevar A. (2012). Word Sense Disambiguation of Persian Homographs . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 328-331. DOI: 10.5220/0004031703280331


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft12,
author={F. Jani and A.H. Pilevar},
title={Word Sense Disambiguation of Persian Homographs},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={328-331},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004031703280331},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Word Sense Disambiguation of Persian Homographs
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Jani F.
AU - Pilevar A.
PY - 2012
SP - 328
EP - 331
DO - 10.5220/0004031703280331