1999/02/25 by Yorick Wilks, Wilks, Yorick
Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #I.2 #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Text Readability and Simplification #Topic Modeling #cs.CL
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cs/9902030
arxiv created 1999/02/25 · openalex publication_date 1999/02/25 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper compares the tasks of part-of-speech (POS) tagging and word-sense-tagging or disambiguation (WSD), and argues that the tasks are not related by fineness of grain or anything like that, but are quite different kinds of task, particularly becuase there is nothing in POS corresponding to sense novelty. The paper also argues for the reintegration of sub-tasks that are being separated for evaluation