One Sense Per Collocation Heuristic

An One Sense Per Collocation Heuristic is a Heuristic that two mentions that …

• Counter-Example(s):
  • One Sense Per Discourse.
  • There's No Data Like More Data.
  • Harris' Distributional Heuristic.
• See: NLP Community.

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References

1993

• (Yarowsky, 1993) ⇒ David Yarowsky. (1993). “One Sense per Collocation.” In: Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology. doi:10.3115/1075671.1075731
  • QUOTE: Previous work (Gale, Church and Yarowsky, 1992) showed that with high probability a polysemous word has one sense per discourse. In this paper we show that for certain definitions of collocation, a polysemous word exhibits essentially only one sense per collocation. … We will attempt to quantify the validity of the one-sense-per collocation hypothesis for these different collocation types.

1992

• (Gale et al., 1992) ⇒ William A. Gale, Kenneth W. Church, and David Yarowsky (1992). “One Sense per Discourse.” In: Proceedings of the DARPA Speech and Natural Language Workshop.

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