God Wat Þæt Ic Eom God - An Exploratory Investigation Into Word Sense Disambiguation in Old English
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چکیده
Natural Language Processing (NLP) of historical languages is an understudied area. Much previous work has focused on the problems of normalization and POS tagging. In contrast, we consider a new problem, word sense disambiguation (WSD). We provide a survey of previous work on processing of historical languages and discuss what we can and cannot apply to the problem of WSD, specifically WSD of Old English (OE). We then annotate a new resource for supervised WSD, which we make available. Finally, we carry out proof-of-concept experiments, followed by a discussion of several promising areas for future work.
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