Abstract

Recent years have witnessed phenomenal developments worldwide in the field of NLP . But developments in Indian regional languages are very few compared to them. This work is a step towards the construction of a target word sense disambiguation system in Malayalam, which is the regional language of the state of Kerala, India. Word Sense Disambiguation/Determination refers to the task of correctly identifying the sense of an ambiguous word from its context. This is considered an AI-Complete problem in the field of Natural Language Processing . For this purpose, an exclusive corpus of 1,147 contexts of target ambiguous words has been created, which to the best of our knowledge is the first attempt in Malayalam. This work describes how the performance of an unsupervised LDA-based approach towards WSD could be improved using semantic features like synonyms and co-occurrence information.

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