Benchmark algorithm for Word-Sense Disambiguation
Choose the sense whose dictionary gloss or definition shares the most words with the target word’s neighborhood
- Target word: w
- Context words of w: wj
- Lexicon definition of senses: D()
- Set of senses of a word: S()
Pros:
- No training data needed
Cons:
- not all words have definitions in WordNet
- need to deal with ambiguous context words
- poor performance.