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Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries: how to tell a pine cone from an ice cream cone

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SIGDOC '86: Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/318723.318728

Published: 01 June 1986 Publication History

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Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries: how to tell a pine cone from an ice cream cone
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
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2. Computing methodologies
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    1. Natural language processing
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SIGDOC '86: Proceedings of the 5th annual international conference on Systems documentation

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