Word Sense Disambiguation: Importance in Natural Language Processing

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Introduction

In human language, often a word is used in more than one way. Understanding the various usage patterns in the language is important for various Natural Language Processing Applications.

In various usage situations, the same word can mean differently. As, a vast majority of the information online, is in English, for the sake of simplicity, let us deal with examples in the English language only.

Let us take the example of the word “bark“:

One meaning of the word refers to the outer covering of the tree. The other meaning refers to the sound made by a dog. So, here the same word has different meanings.

Let us take a piece of text:

“Cinnamon comes from the bark of the Cinnamon tree.”

“The dog barked at the stranger.”

Let us now try a sentence with both words:

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