Knowledge-Rich Word Sense Disambiguation Rivaling Supervised Systems

One of the main obstacles to highperformance Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) is the knowledge acquisition bottleneck. In this paper, we present a methodology to automatically extend WordNet with large amounts of semantic relations from an encyclopedic resource, namely Wikipedia. We show that, when provided with a vast amount of high-quality semantic relations, simple knowledge-lean disambiguation algorithms compete with state-of-the-art supervisedWSD systems in a coarse-grained all-words setting and outperform them on gold-standard domain-specific datasets.