Effective Features for Disambiguation of Turkish Verbs

Authors: Zeynep Orhan, Zeynep Altan

Abstract:

This paper summarizes the results of some experiments for finding the effective features for disambiguation of Turkish verbs. Word sense disambiguation is a current area of investigation in which verbs have the dominant role. Generally verbs have more senses than the other types of words in the average and detecting these features for verbs may lead to some improvements for other word types. In this paper we have considered only the syntactical features that can be obtained from the corpus and tested by using some famous machine learning algorithms.

Keywords: Word sense disambiguation, feature selection.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1080310

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