Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation Using Neighborhood Knowledge 1

Usually ambiguous words contained in article appear several times. Almost all existing methods for unsupervised word sense disambiguation make use of information contained only in ambiguous sentence. This paper presents a novel approach by considering neighborhood knowledge. The approach can naturally make full use of the within-sentence relationship from the ambiguous sentence and cross-sentence relationship from the neighborhood knowledge. Experimental results indicate the proposed method can significantly outperform the baseline method.