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?
October 7th, 2008 - 8:48 pm § in Semantic web
What is semantic search?
There’s been a lot of talk recently about “semantic search”, and is also refered to as the “readwrite web”. Powerset, Cognition, Ask, Hakia, and many others are “semantic search engines”. It’s not a new concept, research has been available in acade[...]
