Jan
29
2012
For the first post in 2012, it is opportune to look again at WSD. Word-sense disambiguation is the name for the challenge of choosing the correct meaning of a word, its word-sense, in a sentence. To understand the context of a sentence, each of the words must be aligned with the possible meanings in the sentence. See the definition at word-sense disambiguation for a more detailed description of the problem.
We solve the problem by identifying the set of valid senses that apply to a particular sentence. Sentences contain massive amounts of information which apply readily to this problem.
There is another video we will do on this topic that will be released in the next few days. The point is that for computers to understand us, a WSD solution is essential. Like Patom theory, the solution comes from the set of possible answers intersected together to create, yes, linkset intersection.
I look forward to seeing you again soon for the next explanation of this.