Research Article

A Learning-Based Approach for Biomedical Word Sense Disambiguation

Table 1

An example of a training corpus of 10 instances of an ambiguous word 𝑤 𝑥 where 5 instances are in the first sense listed under class label 𝐶 1 and 5 instances of the second sense listed under class 𝐶 2 . The context word 𝑤 𝑝 has 4 and 1 occurrences in Class 𝐶 1 and 𝐶 2 , respectively, while 𝑤 𝑞 has 3 and 2 occurrences in 𝐶 1 and 𝐶 2 , respectively.

𝐶 1 𝐶 2

𝑤 𝑝 𝐰 𝐱 𝑤 𝑞 𝑤 𝑝 𝐰 𝐱
𝑤 𝑝 𝐰 𝐱 𝑤 𝑞 𝑤 𝑞 𝐰 𝐱
𝑤 𝑝 𝐰 𝐱 𝑤 𝑞 𝐰 𝐱
𝑤 𝑝 𝐰 𝐱 𝐰 𝐱
𝑤 𝑞 𝐰 𝐱 𝐰 𝐱