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title: "Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Lexical Chaining"
authors:
  - "Michel Galley"
  - "Kathleen R. McKeown"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/245"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2003/0245.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2003
pages: "1486-1487"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Improving Word Sense Disambiguation in Lexical Chaining

Michel Galley, Kathleen R. McKeown

*Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1486-1487.

## Abstract

Previous algorithms to compute lexical chains suffer either from a lack of accuracy in word sense disambiguation (WSD) or from computational inefficiency. In this paper, we present a new lineartime algorithm for lexical chaining that adopts the assumption of one sense per discourse. Our results show an improvement over previous algorithms when evaluated on a WSD task.