External Knowledge Sources
Knowledge is a fundamental component of WSD. Knowledge sources provide data which are essential to associate senses with words. They can vary from corpora of texts, either unlabeled or annotated with word senses, to machine-readable dictionaries, thesauri, glossaries, ontologies, etc. They can be classified as follows:
- Structured:
- Thesauri
- Machine-readable dictionaries (MRDs)
- Ontologies
- Unstructured:
- Corpora: raw corpora and sense-annotated corpora
- Collocation resources
- Other resources (such as word frequency lists, stoplists, domain labels, etc.)
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“Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)
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“The sources of poetry are in the spirit seeking completeness.”
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