On Oct 12, 2013, at 11:44 AM, John F Sowa wrote:
Word sense disambiguation assumes word senses. Within the lexicography
and linguistics literature, they are known to be very slippery entities.
Just to repeat George "Mr WordNet" Miller's two cents:
His example: from a Robert Frost poem (”But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”), 13 simple words, produce 3.6 trillion combinations. Something of a challenge for a computer. A human makes sense of it in a moment.
And to remind about the "words" (most likely cryptic abbreviations & acronyms) in software languages of systems.
In 2006 I built a small "dictionary:"
- 2,000 terms
- 68,000 meanings
In 2006 the "winner" was CC with 298 meanings. Today CC has 445 meanings. Language is a moving target. Do the math.