Word Sense Disambiguation

Guide: Dr Sudip Sanyal, Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

• Determine the semantic of a word using word net.
• Used Lesk algorithm to determine the sense of a word based on the meaning of neighboring words.
• Used inverted index to store words and their mappings to documents.
• Retrieved documents containing word in the same meaning used in the query.
• Ranked document based on frequency of the word in the document.