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Exploiting domain information for Word Sense Disambiguation of medical documents

<22>Knowledge about the topic (domain) of a document provides important information to support its interpretation. This paper describes a novel technique for applying domain information in word sense disambiguation systems using topic models. This approach results in significantly improved performance. The research was funded by an EPSRC project (BioWSD) and led to a follow-on EPSRC grant for Stevenson in collaboration with Sheffield’s Medical School (KDisc). The work was an international collaboration with researchers at University of the Basque Country, which continues in an EU project co-ordinated by Stevenson (PATHS). JAMIA (IF:3.571) is the third highest ranked journal in medical informatics.