Unsupervised system for Lexical disambiguation of Arabic language using a vote procedure

摘要

In this paper we propose an unsupervised method for Arabic word sense disambiguation. Using the corpus and the glosses of the ambiguous word, we define a method to generate automatically the context of use for each sense. Since that, we define a similarity measure based on collocation measures to find the most nearest context of use to the sentence containing the ambiguous word. The similarity measure may give more than one sense, for that we define a novel supervised approach called vote procedure. Our work was compared with other related works. We obtained a better rate of disambiguation in the average of 79%.