{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Word Sense Disambiguation with Spreading Activation Networks Generated from Thesauri","authors":[{"name":"George Tsatsaronis","slug":"george-tsatsaronis","given":"George","family":"Tsatsaronis","affiliation":""},{"name":"Michalis Vazirgiannis","slug":"michalis-vazirgiannis","given":"Michalis","family":"Vazirgiannis","affiliation":""},{"name":"Ion Androutsopoulos","slug":"ion-androutsopoulos","given":"Ion","family":"Androutsopoulos","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"Most word sense disambiguation (WSD) methods require large quantities of manually annotated training data and/or do not exploit fully the semantic relations of thesauri. We propose a new unsupervised WSD algorithm, which is based on generating Spreading Activation Networks (SANs) from the senses of a thesaurus and the relations between them. A new method of assigning weights to the networks' links is also proposed. Experiments show that the algorithm outperforms previous unsupervised approaches to WSD.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/279","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0279.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/279.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/bibtex/279","volume":{"slug":"2007","title":"Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2007","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/","year":2007,"location":"Hyderabad, India","dates":"","editors":"Ramon López de Mántaras","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":null,"track":"","number":279,"pages":{"first":1725,"last":1729},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}