NAME

WordNet::SenseRelate::Algorithm::Local - Perl module that finds the sense of a target word that is most related to its context.

SYNOPSIS

  use WordNet::SenseRelate::Algorithm::Local;

  $algo = WordNet::SenseRelate::Algorithm::Local->new($wntools, $measure);

  $sense = $algo->disambiguate($instance);

DESCRIPTION

This modules uses a measure of relatedness (WordNet::Similarity module) to find the relatedness of each sense of the target word with the senses of the words in the context. It then return the most related sense of the target word.

EXPORT

None by default.

SEE ALSO

perl(1)

WordNet::SenseRelate::TargetWord(3)

AUTHOR

Ted Pedersen, tpederse at d.umn.edu

Siddharth Patwardhan, sidd at cs.utah.edu

Satanjeev Banerjee, banerjee+ at cs.cmu.edu

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2005 by Ted Pedersen, Siddharth Patwardhan, and Satanjeev Banerjee

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.3 or, at your option, any later version of Perl 5 you may have available.