HindiWSD: A Package for Word Sense Disambiguation in Hinglish & Hindi

  • Mirza Yusuf
  • , Praatibh Surana
  • , Chethan Sharma*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A lot of commendable work has been done, especially in high resource languages such as English, Spanish, French, etc. However, work done for Indic languages such as Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, etc is relatively less due to difficulty in finding relevant datasets, and the complexity of these languages. With the advent of IndoWordnet, we can explore important tasks such as word sense disambiguation, word similarity, and cross-lingual information retrieval, and carry out effective research regarding the same. In this paper, we worked on improving word sense disambiguation for 20 of the most common ambiguous Hindi words by making use of knowledge-based methods. We also came up with “hindiwsd”, an easy- to-use framework developed in Python that acts as a pipeline for transliteration of Hinglish code-mixed text followed by spell correction, POS tagging, and word sense disambiguation of Hindi text. We also curated a dataset of these 20 most used ambiguous Hindi words. This dataset was then used to enhance a modified Lesk algorithm and more accurately carry out word sense disambiguation. We achieved an accuracy of about 71% using our customized Lesk algorithm which was an improvement to the accuracy of about 34% using the original Lesk algorithm on the test set.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication6th Workshop on Indian Language Data
Subtitle of host publicationResources and Evaluation, WILDRE 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings
EditorsGirish Nath Jha, Sobha Lalitha Devi, Kalika Bali, Atul Kr. Ojha
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages18-23
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546870
Publication statusPublished - 2022
Event6th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation, WILDRE 2022 - Marseille, France
Duration: 20-06-2022 → …

Publication series

Name6th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation, WILDRE 2022 - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2022 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference6th Workshop on Indian Language Data: Resources and Evaluation, WILDRE 2022
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityMarseille
Period20-06-22 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education
  • Library and Information Sciences
  • Linguistics and Language

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