[Corpora-List] Software release: UKB, Graph Based Word Sense Disambiguation and Similarity

[Aitor Soroa Etxabe]

Dear list members,

we are pleased to announce the public release of version 0.1.0 of UKB,
a collection of programs for performing graph-based Word Sense
Disambiguation and lexical similarity/relatedness using a pre-existing
lknowledge base.

UKB has been developed by the IXA group <http://ixa.si.ehu.es> in the
University of the Basque Country. UKB applies the so-called
Personalized PageRank on a Lexical Knowledge Base (LKB) to rank the
vertices of the LKB and thus perform disambiguation. The details of
the method are described in [1]. The algorithm can also be used to
calculate lexical similarity/relatedness of words/sentences. See [2]
for an application of UKB on word similarity.

The software can be downloaded from:

http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/ukb

Best,


Eneko Agirre
Aitor Soroa

Ixa research group
http://ixa.si.ehu.es

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References

[1] Eneko Agirre and Aitor Soroa. 2009. Personalizing PageRank for
Word Sense Disambiguation. Proceedings of the 12th conference of the
European chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
(EACL-2009).  Athens, Greece. (PDF
<https://ixa.si.ehu.es/Ixa/Argitalpenak/Artikuluak/1233561923/publikoak/ukb_eacl09.pdf>)


[2] Eneko Agirre, Enrique Alfonseca, Keith Hall, Jana Kravalova,
Marius Pasca and Aitor Soroa. 2009. A Study on Similarity and
Relatedness Using Distributional and WordNet-based
Approaches. Proceedings of NAACL-HLT 09.  Boulder,
Colorado. (Forthcoming)


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