the procedure of predicting the correct definition of a word in a given context

Word sense disambiguation is the procedure of predicting the correct definition of a word in a given context.

a challenging natural language processing (NLP) problem

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a challenging natural language processing (NLP) problem.

the process of determining the correct meaning of a word in a given context

Word-sense disambiguation is a process of determining the correct meaning of a word in a given context, while sentic computing is a field of study that focuses on the analysis and interpretation of human emotions and sentiments.

a specific task of computational linguistics

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is a specific task of computational linguistics which aims at automatically identifying the correct sense of a given ambiguous word from a set of predefined senses.

Disambiguation

Disambiguation (also called word sense disambiguation or text disambiguation) is the act of interpreting an author's intended use of a word that has multiple meanings or spellings.

an open problem of natural language processing and ontology

In computational linguistics, word-sense disambiguation is an open problem of natural language processing and ontology.

The process of identifying the exact sense of word

The process of identifying the exact sense of word is called Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD).

of words in context in a computational manner

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is the ability to identify the meaning of words in context in a computational manner.

an open problem of natural language processing, which governs the process of identifying which sense of a word (i.e. meaning) is used in a sentence, when the word has multiple meanings (polysemy)

In computational linguistics, word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an open problem of natural language processing, which governs the process of identifying which sense of a word (i.e. meaning) is used in a sentence, when the word has multiple meanings (polysemy).

the ability to determine the meaning of a word with multiple definitions, often from context

“Word sense disambiguation is the ability to determine the meaning of a word with multiple definitions, often from context; an example is the word ‘well’.

an intermediate task within information retrieval and information extraction

Word sense disambiguation (WSD) is an intermediate task within information retrieval and information extraction, attempting to select the proper sense of ambiguous words.