Measuring Meaning in Life
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Measuring Word Meaning in Context
Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an old and important task in computational linguistics that still remains challenging, to machines as well as to human annotators. Recently there have been several proposals for representing word meaning in context that diverge from the traditional use of a single best sense for each occurrence. They represent word meaning in context through multiple paraphras...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Happiness Studies
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1389-4978,1573-7780
DOI: 10.1007/s10902-007-9075-0