Word Sense Annotation

Annotated corpora are only useful if their annotations are consistent. Most large-scale annotation efforts take special measures to reconcile inter-annotator disagreement. To date, however, no-one has investigated how to automatically …...

AbstractThis study attempts to pinpoint the factors that restrict reliable word sense annotation, focusing on the influence of the number of senses annotators use and the semantic granularity of those …...

AbstractWe describe results of a word sense annotation task using WordNet, involving half a dozen well-trained annotators on ten polysemous words for three parts of speech. One hundred sentences for …...

AbstractWord sense annotation is a challenging task where annotators distinguish which meaning of a word is present in a given context. In some contexts, a word usage may elicit multiple …...

AbstractStandard agreement measures for interannotator reliability are neither necessary nor sufficient to ensure a high quality corpus. In a case study of word sense annotation, conventional methods for evaluating labels …...

This paper tries to demonstrate our exploratory efforts in tackling with the “high accuracy-low quantity” problem of human word sense annotation task in Chinese, and ultimately reach the goal of …...