Florentina Hristea


2017

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ShotgunWSD: An unsupervised algorithm for global word sense disambiguation inspired by DNA sequencing
Andrei Butnaru | Radu Tudor Ionescu | Florentina Hristea
Proceedings of the 15th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Volume 1, Long Papers

In this paper, we present a novel unsupervised algorithm for word sense disambiguation (WSD) at the document level. Our algorithm is inspired by a widely-used approach in the field of genetics for whole genome sequencing, known as the Shotgun sequencing technique. The proposed WSD algorithm is based on three main steps. First, a brute-force WSD algorithm is applied to short context windows (up to 10 words) selected from the document in order to generate a short list of likely sense configurations for each window. In the second step, these local sense configurations are assembled into longer composite configurations based on suffix and prefix matching. The resulted configurations are ranked by their length, and the sense of each word is chosen based on a voting scheme that considers only the top k configurations in which the word appears. We compare our algorithm with other state-of-the-art unsupervised WSD algorithms and demonstrate better performance, sometimes by a very large margin. We also show that our algorithm can yield better performance than the Most Common Sense (MCS) baseline on one data set. Moreover, our algorithm has a very small number of parameters, is robust to parameter tuning, and, unlike other bio-inspired methods, it gives a deterministic solution (it does not involve random choices).

2013

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On a Dependency-based Semantic Space for Unsupervised Noun Sense Disambiguation with an Underlying Naïve Bayes Model
Florentina Hristea
Proceedings of the Joint Symposium on Semantic Processing. Textual Inference and Structures in Corpora

2006

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Squibs and Discussions: WordNet Nouns: Classes and Instances
George A. Miller | Florentina Hristea
Computational Linguistics, Volume 32, Number 1, March 2006

2004

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An evaluation exercise for Romanian Word Sense Disambiguation
Rada Mihalcea | Vivi Năstase | Timothy Chklovski | Doina Tătar | Dan Tufiş | Florentina Hristea
Proceedings of SENSEVAL-3, the Third International Workshop on the Evaluation of Systems for the Semantic Analysis of Text