What is word sense disambiguation good for?
<|reference_start|>What is word sense disambiguation good for?: Word sense disambiguation has developed as a sub-area of natural language processing, as if, like parsing, it was a well-defined task which was a pre-requisite to a wide range of language-understanding applications. First, I review earlier work which shows that a set of senses for a word is only ever defined relative to a particular human purpose, and that a view of word senses as part of the linguistic furniture lacks theoretical underpinnings. Then, I investigate whether and how word sense ambiguity is in fact a problem for different varieties of NLP application.<|reference_end|>
@article{kilgarriff1997what,
    title={What is word sense disambiguation good for?},
    author={Adam Kilgarriff (ITRI, University of Brighton)},
    journal={Proc. Natural Language Processing Pacific Rim Symposium. Phuket,
  Thailand. December 1997. Pp 209--214.},
    year={1997},
    number={ITRI-97-08},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9712008},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}