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A Syntactic Parser With Semantic Filtering For Biomedical Text, Gondy Leroy, Thomas C. Rindflesch, Bisharah Libbus, Halil Kilicoglu, Hsinchun Chen Jan 2004

A Syntactic Parser With Semantic Filtering For Biomedical Text, Gondy Leroy, Thomas C. Rindflesch, Bisharah Libbus, Halil Kilicoglu, Hsinchun Chen

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

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Using Symbolic Knowledge In The Umls To Disambiguate Words In Small Datasets With A Naive Bayes Classifier, Gondy Leroy, Thomas C. Rindflesch Jan 2004

Using Symbolic Knowledge In The Umls To Disambiguate Words In Small Datasets With A Naive Bayes Classifier, Gondy Leroy, Thomas C. Rindflesch

CGU Faculty Publications and Research

Current approaches to word sense disambiguation use and combine various machine-learning techniques. Most refer to characteristics of the ambiguous word and surrounding words and are based on hundreds of examples. Unfortunately, developing large training sets is time-consuming. We investigate the use of symbolic knowledge to augment machine-learning techniques for small datasets. UMLS semantic types assigned to concepts found in the sentence and relationships between these semantic types form the knowledge base. A naïve Bayes classifier was trained for 15 words with 100 examples for each. The most frequent sense of a word served as the baseline. The effect of increasingly …