Context Expansion for Domain-Specific Word Sense Disambiguation

Two novel techniques based on term expansion for domain-specific Word Sense Disambiguation are presented in this paper. A list of terms correlated with the ambiguous word is obtained by means of correlation methods such as Pointwise Mutual Information and Chi-square. The list of correlated terms is used for expanding the context in which an ambiguous word occurs, thus leading to a better number of terms which may be further used for determining the correct sense of the target ambiguous word. The proposed method has been tested in domain-specific corpora (Finance and Sports) and in one balanced corpus, the British National Corpus (BNC). The obtained results for domain-specific corpora are competitive (Finance) and ever better (Sports and BNC) than those reported in previous works.