Word sense disambiguation (WSD) belongs to the field of computational linguistics. It’s the research area dedicated to finding ways for machines to understand the meaning of words. More precisely, it’s about determining the word sense of a particular word in a context. This [...]
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March 17th, 2009 - 10:46 am § in Information retrieval, Information/text analysis, Search engines, Tutorials
How does a search engine know what words mean?
July 22nd, 2008 - 12:08 am § in Uncategorized
Natural language querying
A natural language query is expressed in conversational syntax. An example would be “What is a tornado”. In keyword search you would enter the term “tornado”, and some engines have commands such as “define: tornado”. What makes natural language querying different [...]

