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title: "Word Sense Disambiguation with Spreading Activation Networks Generated from Thesauri"
authors:
  - "George Tsatsaronis"
  - "Michalis Vazirgiannis"
  - "Ion Androutsopoulos"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/279"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2007/0279.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2007
pages: "1725-1729"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Word Sense Disambiguation with Spreading Activation Networks Generated from Thesauri

George Tsatsaronis, Michalis Vazirgiannis, Ion Androutsopoulos

*Proceedings of the Twentieth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1725-1729.

## 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.