Resources for Word-Sense Identification

这是一个为期两年的持续奖励的第一年资助。目的是提供文本语料库，用于开发和评估自动识别英语多义词语义的方法，并使这些资源普遍可用。选择了1000个具有多种含义且在印刷材料中经常出现的英语单词（名词、动词、形容词、副词）。在书面英语语料库中搜索这些单词的出现情况，然后根据单词在每个上下文中的含义手工分类。结果将是一组文件为每个单词，一个文件为每个证明的意义；这些文件的大小将表明这些单词的不同含义出现的相对频率。这些文件可用于开发自动词义识别方法，并将使自动词义识别系统的评价标准化和评价自然语言处理分支的进展成为可能。更好的自动词义识别方法将促进各种应用中的语言处理：信息检索、机器翻译、计算机辅助教学等。

This is the first year funding of a two-year continuing award. The objective is to provide textual corpora to use in developing and evaluating automatic methods to identify intended senses of polysemous English words, and to make these resources generally available. 1000 English words (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs) that have multiple meanings and occur frequently in printed materials have been selected. Corpora of written English will be searched for occurrences of these words, which will then be classified by hand according to the word's meaning in each context. The result will be a set of files for each word, one file for each attested meaning; the sizes of these files will indicate the relative frequency of occurrence of different senses of these words. Such files can be used to develop automatic methods of word-sense identification, and will make it possible to standardize the evaluation of automatic word-sense identification systems and to evaluate progress in this branch of natural language processing. Better methods of automatic word-sense identification will facilitate language processing in various applications: information retrieval, machine translation, computer-assisted instruction, and elsewhere.