Survey of the word sense disambiguation and challenges for the Slovak language

The main goal of this paper is to explain important terms of the word sense disambiguation (WSD) in the Slovak language. A comprehensive survey of current approaches and evaluation methodologies is provided. Special attention is given to necessary language resources and tools. The paper deals with problems specific to Slovak language: missing language resources, rich morphology, free word order and their solutions. Research directions of Slovak WSD system utilizing available language resources and unsupervised approaches are explained in the conclusion.