Talk:Word-sense disambiguation

Lecture?

'We shall deal with the deep approaches first'? Is this a transcription of a university professor's lecture, or what. Aardark 17:04, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Homographs, vs. other WSD tasks

The "bass" example is a homograph, while sense disambiguation often deals with finer distinctions (like the people sitting at a table verses the actual table).

A song could be about fish, the first example isn't explicit enough to claim all people recognize it as the musical type of bass.

i really wish there was a disambiguation:disambiguation section. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.70.93 (talk) 03:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Bad example

It's not that hard to disambiguate "The dog barks at the tree", if you are using a tagger in the disambiguation process. 'bark' is a verb and as such can only be of the sense 'dog noise'. The examples given in the article don't adequately describe the challenges of WSD. -- 72.200.78.210 (talk) 04:41, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

Mihalcea's algo's

There are other algos, and some of the most interesting and seemingly most successful, have been proposed by Radu Mihalcea. Article should mention, if not review these. I'm also thinking that the current algo description is over-long, wandering off into excess detail for what should be a more general article? linas (talk) 23:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC) 1

provenance/coinage

Is this an English word or a neologism? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 19:34, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

Disambiguation ("remove uncertainty of meaning from (an ambiguous sentence, phrase, or other linguistic unit)." in Oxford American Dictionary) is a real word. DEddy (talk) 20:07, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

I wonder if it existed before W'pedia. It is pretty crazy. What on earth does it mean? Is there an *ambiguation? May one *ambiguate? Sure, there's ambiguity but what is this? Above we have 'It's not that hard to disambiguate' but does anyone ever say "disambiguate" out loud?