A cognitively motivated word sense induction algorithm

Yair Neuman, Dan Assaf, Yohai Cohen

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Abstract

The way in which word senses are produced and identified is of great interest to cognitive sciences as well as to various applications in natural language processing. In this paper, we present a cognitively inspired algorithm of word sense induction. The algorithm fuses the distributional and perceptual information of words. By drawing on minimal resources -word collocations and their level of concreteness/abstractness -our algorithm automatically produces for each target noun a graph that is an endomap with a maximal number of 50 nodes. This graph represents the major senses associated with the noun. Tested on a word sense disambiguation task and on psychological data, our algorithm gains significant empirical support for its efficiency.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, CCMB 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Pages66-72
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)9781467358712
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2013
Event2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, CCMB 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 16 Apr 201319 Apr 2013

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, CCMB 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain, CCMB 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period16/04/1319/04/13

Keywords

  • cognition
  • embodiment
  • word sense disambiguation
  • word sense induction

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Modeling and Simulation

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