SenseRelate Publications

These publications are either descriptions of the SenseRelate methodology for word sense disambiguation, or they report results based on a SenseRelate algorithm. SenseRelate uses WordNet-Similarity, which has a publication page too.

2017

Duluth at SemEval-2017 Task 7: Puns Upon a Midnight Dreary, Lexical Semantics for the Weak and Weary (Pedersen) Appears in the Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2017), August 2017, pp. 407-411, Vancouver, BC.

2009

An Extended Analysis of a Method of All Words Sense Disambiguation (Kolhatkar) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, August, 2009.
WordNet::SenseRelate::AllWords - A Broad Coverage Word Sense Tagger that Maximimizes Semantic Relatedness (Pedersen and Kolhatkar) - Appears in the Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Human Language Technologies 2009 Conference, June 1-3, 2009, pp. 17-20, Boulder, CO. (Demonstration System)

2007

UMND1: Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Contextual Semantic Relatedness (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of SemEval-2007: 4th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluations, June 23-24, 2007, pp. 390-393, Prague, Czech Republic.

2005

SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1692-1693, July 12, 2005, Pittsburgh, PA. (Intelligent Systems Demonstration)
Semantic Relatedness Applied to All Words Sense Disambiguation (Michelizzi) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, July, 2005.
SenseRelate::TargetWord - A Generalized Framework for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee, and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Demonstration and Interactive Poster Session of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 73-76, June 26, 2005, Ann Arbor, MI. [acceptance rate 55%]
Maximizing Semantic Relatedness to Perform Word Sense Disambiguation (Pedersen, Banerjee, and Patwardhan) - University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute Research Report UMSI 2005/25, March.

2004

The Duluth Lexical Sample Systems in Senseval-3 (Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text (Senseval-3), pp. 203-208, July 25-26, 2004, Barcelona, Spain.

2003

Extended Gloss Overlaps as a Measure of Semantic Relatedness (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 805-810, August 9-15, 2003, Acapulco, Mexico. [acceptance rate 21%]
Also available in postscript.
An implementation of the extended gloss overlap measure is available in the WordNet::Similarity package

Using Measures of Semantic Relatedness for Word Sense Disambiguation (Patwardhan, Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 241-257, February 17-21, 2003, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 46%]
Also available in postscript

2002

Adapting the Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation to WordNet (Banerjee) - Master of Science Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Minnesota, Duluth, December, 2002.
An Adapted Lesk Algorithm for Word Sense Disambiguation using WordNet (Banerjee and Pedersen) - Appears in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, pp. 136-145, February 17-23, 2002, Mexico City. [acceptance rate 52%]
Also available in postscript

By: Ted Pedersen - tpederse AT d umn edu