The Naïve Bayes Model for Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation (eBook)

Florentina T. Hristea is a graduate of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Bucharest in 1984. She received her Ph.D. in Mathematics, from the same university, in 1996. She is currently Associate Professor of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest. Her current research field is artificial intelligence, with specialization in natural language processing (NLP), as well as computational statistics and data analysis with applications in NLP. She has been Principal Investigator in several national and international research-development projects in the field of statistical NLP. Dr. Hristea is author or co-author of 8 books and of various scientific papers in the fields of computational statistics and natural language processing, respectively, out of which 28 are papers in refereed journals. Dr. Hristea is an elected member of ISI (International Statistical Institute) and of IRF (Information Retrieval Facility; member of the expert pool). She is a member of GWA (Global WordNet Association). Dr. Hristea is Co-Editor of “Central European Journal of Computer Science” (published by Versita and Springer Verlag). She is equally a member of the Editorial Review Board of “Artificial Intelligence Research” (Sciedu Press, Canada). Dr. Hristea was a Fulbright Research Fellow at Princeton University, U.S.A., in 2004.

1.Preliminaries.- 2.The Naïve Bayes Model in the Context of Word Sense Disambiguation.- 3.Semantic WordNet-based Feature Selection.- 4.Syntactic Dependency-based Feature Selection.- 5.N-Gram Features for Unsupervised WSD with an Underlying Naïve Bayes Model References.- Index.​