Combining Classifiers with Multi-representation of Context in Word Sense Disambiguation

In this paper, we first argue that various ways of using context in WSD can be considered as distinct representations of a polysemous word under consideration, then all these representations are used jointly to identify the meaning of the target word. Under such a consideration, we can then straightforwardly apply the general framework for combining classifiers developed in Kittler et al. [5] to WSD problem. This results in many commonly used decision rules for WSD. The experimental result shows that the multirepresentation based combination strategy of classifiers outperform individual ones as well as known techniques of classifier combination in WSD. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005. Index