AHybridRelationalApproachforWordSenseDisambiguation.ppt

A Hybrid Relational Approach for Word Sense Disambiguation in Machine Translation Lucia Specia Mark Stevenson Maria G. V. Nunes WSD in Machine Translation (MT) Lexical choice in the case of semantic ambiguity. Examples (English-Portuguese): take = tomar (carry out), levar (lead, direct, conduct, guide), aceitar (accept), pegar (choose, pick out), etc. WSD in Machine Translation (cont.) One of the main challenges in MT. Conflicting results on the usefulness of WSD for (statistical) MT: (Vickrey et al., 2005); (Carpuat and Wu, 2005). Particularly for English-Portugues